What Does Luke 13:10 Mean in the King James?
And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.
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 Greek word behind “synagogue” grows from “gather together,” placing the teaching among people already assembled.
THE MEANING
You encounter teaching already in motion within a gathered community, during the Sabbath. The scene holds assembly and instruction together: people are present where teaching unfolds.
THE ROOT
συναγωγῶν
synagōgōn
GROWS FROM
συνάγ-
synag-
gather together; bring into one place
“synagogues” in this verse is synagōgōn. The word belongs to the family συνάγω (synagō, “gather together”), joining συν (syn, “together”) and ἄγω (agō, “bring” or “lead”). The Greek family foregrounds the gathering itself, so teaching unfolds within a community drawn together.
ALSO GROWS
synagō: gather together; bring together
συνάγω
This verb names the action carried within the word for synagogue: people come together.
synagōgē: gathering; assembly; synagogue
συναγωγή
The verse’s location word belongs to the same family as “gathering,” linking the place with the people assembled there.
διδάσκων
didaskōn
GROWS FROM
διδασκ-
didask-
teach; instruct
The form διδάσκων (didaskōn, “teaching”) presents instruction as underway. Its root also appears in the words for “teacher” and “teaching,” connecting the act, the person teaching, and the instruction itself.
ALSO GROWS
didaskalos: teacher
διδάσκαλος
The same root names the person who carries out the teaching.
didaskalia: teaching; instruction
διδασκαλία
The same root names the instruction being shared, completing the link between teacher and act.
THE PATTERN
Instruction takes shape among people gathered to hear, learn, and receive teaching.
Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.THE THREAD
And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.Mark’s Greek uses συναγωγή (synagōgē, “gathering” or “assembly”) and ἐδίδασκεν (edidasken, “he was teaching”), from the same συνάγ- and διδασκ- families found in Luke. The shared roots reveal the same structure: people gather, and teaching is underway among them.
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