What Does Luke 12:41 Mean in the King James?
Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?
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 hidden question is whether this teaching is placed beside only the inner circle or beside everyone.
THE MEANING
The question is alive whenever you wonder whether a teaching includes you or belongs only to those closest to it. It opens the boundary of the audience; the surrounding answer turns toward what is entrusted and what follows from receiving it.
THE ROOT
παραβολή
parabolē
GROWS FROM
βάλλω
ballō
To throw, cast, or place.
A parable is a comparison placed beside its hearer. Peter’s question asks where this teaching is set: beside only the close circle, or before everyone.
ALSO GROWS
bolē: A throw or cast.
βολή
It keeps the root’s image of something placed or cast before someone.
paraballō: To place beside; to compare.
παραβάλλω
This verb shows the act of setting one thing alongside another, the image behind a parable.
THE PATTERN
What is disclosed or entrusted does not remain sealed with its first hearer; it reaches others and carries a measure of response.
The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.THE THREAD
But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.Peter asks who the parable addresses; the answer turns toward what each hearer has received and what follows from that trust. The audience question opens into a measure of responsibility.
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