What Does Luke 17:25 Mean in the King James?
But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
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 Son of Man’s rejection is part of the path before his day, not proof that the path has failed.
THE MEANING
You encounter a fixed order: the Son of Man must undergo many things and be rejected by this generation before his day arrives. The rejection is real, but it does not cancel what the verse says is coming.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that rejection proves the rejected one has failed: here, the Son of Man’s rejection is part of the necessary path before his day.
THE ROOT
ἀποδοκιμασθῆναι
apodokimasthēnai
GROWS FROM
δοκιμ-
dokim-
The root carries the idea of testing or examining for approval; ἀποδοκιμάζω (apodokimazō) means to reject or disapprove.
“Rejected” carries the force of a verdict: the Son of Man is judged unfit and turned away. This is more than being overlooked; the verse names a judgment that does not determine what comes next.
ALSO GROWS
dokimazō: To test or examine, and to approve what passes.
δοκιμάζω
It reveals the judgment hidden inside “rejected”: someone assesses the Son of Man and refuses him.
adokimos: Not approved; judged unfit.
ἀδόκιμος
This branch makes the verdict plain: rejection treats someone as having failed the test.
παθεῖν
pathein
GROWS FROM
παθ-
path-
To undergo or experience; in painful contexts, to suffer.
“suffer” in this verse is pathein. The verb can describe undergoing an experience, while “many things” makes the suffering concrete. The verse speaks of what the Son of Man passes through before he is rejected.
ALSO GROWS
pathēma: An experience or suffering endured.
πάθημα
It keeps the verse’s suffering grounded in what is actually borne.
sympaschō: To undergo suffering together with another.
συμπάσχω
The shared root can describe suffering as an experience one enters, not merely an idea or label.
THE PATTERN
Scripture holds human rejection together with a place in God’s purpose.
The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:THE THREAD
And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.Mark repeats the same sequence: the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected. It then names death and rising, showing that rejection is a passage within the announced path, not its conclusion.
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