What Does Luke 13:14 Mean in the King James?
And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.
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 ruler calls healing “work” and schedules it for another day, turning a rule about rest into a barrier to release.
THE MEANING
A rule can turn a person’s relief into something they must schedule for a more convenient day. The ruler’s indignation shows how defending order can make healing seem out of place while a body remains constrained. The verse holds the clash in the present: the calendar’s claim against the need for release now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie is that postponing relief honors sacred order; this verse exposes how that order can become a barrier to the wholeness it is meant to protect.
THE ROOT
θεραπεύεσθε
therapeuesthe
GROWS FROM
θεραπευ
The Greek stem θεραπευ- (therapeu-) carries the senses of attending, serving, and caring for; medical treatment and healing grow from that care.
The ruler’s “be healed” is a form of care directed to a person, yet he classifies that care as work that must wait. Hebrew makes the healing-release bond explicit in רָפָא (rapha, heal) and רָפָה (raphah, release; let your hands drop): healing meets constraint by letting it go.
ALSO GROWS
therapeia: Service, care, treatment, or healing.
θεραπεία
This branch keeps healing connected to attention and care for the person, the very care the ruler tries to schedule away.
therapeutēs: An attendant, caretaker, or healer.
θεραπευτής
The same stem names the one who attends to another, revealing healing as care given rather than a task detached from the person.
שַׁבָּת
Shabbat
GROWS FROM
שבת
The Hebrew root שבת (sh-b-t) means to cease, stop, or rest.
Luke’s σαββάτῳ (sabbatō, Sabbath) carries this Hebrew name into Greek. Its root sense is cessation and rest; the tension is that the ruler defends the day’s boundary while separating it from the woman’s release.
ALSO GROWS
shavat: To cease, stop, or rest.
שָׁבַת
The verbal branch makes Sabbath rest an act of cessation, sharpening the question of what should be allowed to cease: work, or the woman’s bondage.
shabbaton: A Sabbath rest or solemn cessation.
שַׁבָּתוֹן
This related form names rest itself, making the ruler’s objection striking when release is precisely what the day can hold.
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yeshua
GROWS FROM
ישע
The root ישע (y-sh-ʿ) carries deliverance: movement out of constraint and into spaciousness.
The Greek name Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous, Jesus) carries the Hebrew name יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshua, deliverance), from יָשַׁע (yasha, deliver). Here the name stands beside healing that the ruler wants to postpone: deliverance arrives as release where a person is constrained.
ALSO GROWS
yasha: To deliver or rescue; bring into safety.
יָשַׁע
This verbal root carries the action compressed in the name, and the healing at issue is deliverance from what constrains the woman.
yeshuah: Deliverance.
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun names the movement itself, giving the name Jesus the nature of release rather than a label alone.
THE PATTERN
Sabbath rest remembers liberation and leaves room for restoration.
And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?THE THREAD
And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?This verse names the woman’s condition as a bond and asks whether she should be released on the Sabbath, reversing the ruler’s calendar logic. The Greek λυθῆναι (lythēnai, to be loosed) belongs to λύω (lyō, loosen or release), making freedom the point of the Sabbath scene.
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