What Does Luke 13:33 Mean in the King James?
Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.
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 path continues even when the prophet’s death is named as its cost.
THE MEANING
Your path moves through today and what follows, while danger remains real. The verse does not promise that a true path keeps its messenger from death. It names Jerusalem as the place where the prophet perishes.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse dissolves the belief that a true prophetic path guarantees escape from death.
THE ROOT
ἀπολέσθαι
apolesthai
GROWS FROM
ἀπόλλυμι
To destroy, lose, or perish.
The Greek verb carries both perishing and being lost, so the line names more than an abstract ending: the prophet’s loss is real. The same verb family also speaks of what is ruined or lost, a connection the English word “perish” can leave out of view.
ALSO GROWS
apōleia: Destruction, ruin, loss.
ἀπώλεια
This cognate in the ἀπόλλυμι family shows how perishing opens into the wider language of loss and ruin.
apolōlós: Lost, perished.
ἀπολωλός
This participial form from ἀπόλλυμι describes someone as lost or perished, bringing the root’s sense of loss into focus.
THE PATTERN
The prophetic word enters communities where its messenger can be rejected and killed.
And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:THE THREAD
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.John uses the same Greek verb, ἀπόλλυμι, behind “perish.” There, perishing is set against life; here, the prophet’s perishing is named as the danger bound to Jerusalem.
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