What Does Luke 2:17 Mean in the King James?
And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.
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 same knowing that reaches the shepherds moves outward through them: what they receive becomes known as they speak.
THE MEANING
What reaches you about this child is not only something to observe: the spoken saying becomes known through the people who receive it. The verse holds revelation as movement from encounter into testimony, with the message passing outward through human voices.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the assumption that revelation is complete while sealed inside a private experience; here, what is received becomes known as it is spoken.
THE ROOT
ἐγνώρισαν
egnōrisan
GROWS FROM
γνω-/γνο- (gnō-/gno-)
To know or recognize; γνωρίζω (gnōrizō) means to make known, to disclose.
“made known abroad” in this verse is egnōrisan. This Greek verb belongs to the word-family of knowing and recognition, and its form means to cause something to be known. Those who encounter the saying become the means by which it is disclosed, carrying the knowing outward through their voices.
ALSO GROWS
ginōskō: Know, recognize, perceive through encounter.
γινώσκω
The shepherds’ disclosure grows from what they have seen and received, not from detached information.
gnōsis: Knowing, recognition, knowledge.
γνῶσις
This branch keeps the announcement connected to knowing: the message becomes known as those who have received it make it known.
THE PATTERN
What is received through seeing and hearing becomes shared testimony when it is spoken.
Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.For we can not but speak the things which we have seen and heard.That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.THE THREAD
And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.The Lord “hath made known” the message to the shepherds with the same Greek verb-family used when they “made known” the saying in verse 17. The disclosure passes through them: what is made known to them becomes known through them.
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