What Does Luke 14:15 Mean in the King James?
And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.
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
Flourishing takes the concrete shape of bread received at the table of God’s governance.
THE MEANING
Your hope takes the shape of a table: bread received within God’s governance, where flourishing is shared nourishment. The meal is still ahead in the verse’s wording, yet its promise gives the present a horizon of welcome and provision.
THE ROOT
μακάριος
makários
GROWS FROM
μακαρ-
makar-
Flourishing; a condition of being fortunate or blessed.
“Blessed” in this verse is makários. The word names a life marked by flourishing, not merely a feeling of happiness. Here that flourishing is pictured concretely as eating bread within God’s governance.
ALSO GROWS
makarízō: To call or count someone flourishing or blessed.
μακαρίζω
Flourishing is something recognized in a person’s life, echoing the speaker’s naming of the one who eats at God’s table.
makarismós: A declaration of blessedness or flourishing.
μακαρισμός
This related word makes the act of naming flourishing explicit, as the speaker does here.
βασιλεία
basileía
GROWS FROM
βασιλευ-
basileu-
Rule or reign as king; governance.
The related words describe both the ruler and the act of ruling, so God’s kingdom carries the sense of God’s active governance. In this verse, that governance is pictured as a place of nourishment and welcome.
ALSO GROWS
basileús: King; one who rules as king.
βασιλεύς
The related noun identifies the ruler whose active governance βασιλεία names.
basileúō: To reign or rule as king.
βασιλεύω
This verb shows the living action within the word for kingdom: rule in motion.
THE PATTERN
God’s governance gathers people into shared provision, pictured as a table or feast.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.THE THREAD
And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.The same Greek word appears in plural: μακάριοι (makárioi, flourishing or blessed). Luke names the one who will eat bread in God’s governance; Revelation opens that image into a shared supper, where those called to the table are called flourishing.
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