What Does Luke 10:41 Mean in the King James?
And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things:
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The word translated “troubled” carries the sense of an uproar: many concerns have become a clamor within you.
THE MEANING
Jesus sees how many concerns crowd your attention and stir you into inner commotion. The verse names that experience plainly, without reducing you to it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that being troubled by many things means you are simply failing; Jesus names the turmoil with tenderness.
THE ROOT
θορυβάζῃ
thorybazē
GROWS FROM
θορυβ-
thoryb-
tumult, uproar, commotion
The word translated “troubled” belongs to the same word family as “uproar” and “ado.” English can make the experience sound like quiet worry; the Greek also lets you hear the clamor that many concerns create within you.
ALSO GROWS
thorybos: tumult, uproar
θόρυβος
The shared stem gives “troubled” the sound of commotion, not just a list of concerns.
thorybeō: to make an uproar; to be in commotion
θορυβέω
This verb uses the same word family for the tumult Jesus names in Martha.
THE PATTERN
When care gathers into a clamor, scripture gives it somewhere to be placed beyond the self.
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.THE THREAD
And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.“Ado” translates a verb from the same Greek word family as “troubled” here. The root lets you recognize the same tumult whether it fills a room with noise or crowds one person’s attention.
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