What Does Luke 10:34 Mean in the King James?

And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

Luke 10:34 · KJV

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THE KEY

Compassion takes on the wounded person’s weight, using the helper’s own resources to carry care all the way to shelter.

THE MEANING

Pain meets care that is physical and costly: wounds are bound, oil and wine are poured in, and the injured person rides on the helper’s own animal. The care continues into shelter, where attention does not end with the first act of aid.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that compassion is only a feeling or a brief gesture: here it accepts the injured person’s weight, uses its own resources, and carries responsibility into the next place.

THE ROOT

ἐπεμελήθη

epemelēthē

GROWS FROM

μέλω

melō

to matter, concern, or be cared about

“took care” in this verse is epemelēthē. The verb gives care the sense of sustained attention to what matters. Its placement gathers the binding, treatment, carrying, and sheltering into one continuing concern for the wounded person.

ALSO GROWS

melei: it matters; it concerns

μέλει

This form makes care a response to what matters enough to hold attention.

epimeleia: care; attention

ἐπιμέλεια

This related word names the attentive care that continues beyond a single helpful act.

THE PATTERN

Compassion becomes visible through material care that meets bodily need and carries responsibility forward.

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

Isaiah 58:7 · KJVCare meets hunger, exposure, and displacement with food, shelter, clothing, and presence.

Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

Matthew 25:36 · KJVThe verse describes compassion as direct acts of clothing, visiting, and coming near to people in need.

And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?

James 2:16 · KJVBy contrasting kind words with unmet bodily needs, the verse shows that care takes shape in what actually helps.

THE THREAD

And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.

Luke 10:35 · KJV

“Take care of him” uses the same Greek verb as “took care” here. The care continues after the helper leaves: it is entrusted to another person, funded, and held open into the future.

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