What Does Luke 20:12 Mean in the King James?
And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out.
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 refusal becomes a boundary: the messenger is wounded, then thrown beyond it.
THE MEANING
The verse holds two harms together: the messenger is injured, then expelled. Rejection here reaches both the body and the place where a person is allowed to remain.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that rejection is only disagreement: here, refusal becomes bodily harm and removal of the witness.
THE ROOT
ἐξέβαλον
exebalon
GROWS FROM
βάλλω
ballō
To throw, cast, or put; joined with ἐκ (ek, out), the action is directed outward.
“cast him out” in this verse is exebalon. The Greek verb gives the expulsion a direction: the messenger is thrown out across a boundary. Its word family can also describe something cast away or something placed onto a surface; here, the direction is unmistakably outward.
ALSO GROWS
ekbolē: a casting out or jettisoning
ἐκβολή
This word can describe throwing cargo overboard; it makes the force of the messenger’s removal concrete.
epiblēma: a patch or piece put onto a garment
ἐπίβλημα
This related word uses the same root for putting something onto a surface; the prefix changes the direction from placing upon to casting out.
THE PATTERN
When a message is resisted, the messenger carrying it can become the target of escalating harm.
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.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
They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.The shared Greek verb ἐκβάλλω (ekballō, cast out) links the two scenes. In both, someone who bears unwelcome testimony is forced beyond the boundary.
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