What Does Luke 10:8 Mean in the King James?

And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:

Luke 10:8 · KJV

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 welcome extended to you takes its full shape when you receive the food placed before you.

THE MEANING

When welcome opens a place for you, the meal set before you is part of that welcome. Provision arrives through another person’s hands and becomes yours as you receive it.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

You must control every detail of what is offered before you can receive care.

THE ROOT

παρατιθέμενα

paratithemena

GROWS FROM

τίθημι

tithēmi

to put, place, or set; in this compound, to place beside or before

“set before” in this verse is paratithemena. English keeps the table image, while this word belongs to a family that also carries the sense of entrusting something. The verse holds provision as both placement and transfer: welcome becomes tangible in what is laid within reach.

ALSO GROWS

paratithēmi: to place beside or set before

παρατίθημι

The same verb family describes the disciples setting bread before the crowd in Luke 9:16.

paratithemai: to entrust or commend

παρατίθεμαι

In Luke 23:46, Jesus commends his spirit into the Father’s hands; the shared word family links placing something before another with entrusting it to their care.

THE PATTERN

A welcome becomes provision when what is placed before someone is received.

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Psalm 23:5 · KJVThe prepared table makes welcome visible as provision placed within reach.

If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.

1 Corinthians 10:27 · KJVThe invitation becomes a shared meal through receiving what the host sets before you.

THE THREAD

Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.

Luke 9:16 · KJV

Luke 9:16 uses the same verb family for the disciples setting bread before the crowd. Here that same placing-before action happens at the scale of one guest: provision is brought within reach.

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