What Does Luke 21:12 Mean in the King James?
But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake.
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 pressure comes for the nature carried in Jesus’ name, and bearing it brings public exposure before the expected signs arrive.
THE MEANING
The reader meets a stark sequence: hands seize, institutions receive, and rulers examine, all because of Jesus’ name. His name carries his nature; bearing that nature can bring a person into public conflict without making the conflict proof that the name has failed.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the assumption that carrying Jesus’ name guarantees safety from authorities: here, that name is explicitly the reason a person is seized and brought before them.
THE ROOT
ὄνομα
onoma
GROWS FROM
ὀνοματ-
onomat-
Name or designation; by extension, the person and character represented by a name.
“For my name’s sake” can sound like a reason attached to a label, but the name stands for the one named and the nature that person embodies. Here, opposition meets Jesus’ nature as it becomes visible in the reader’s allegiance.
ALSO GROWS
onomazō: To name or call by name.
ὀνομάζω
Naming gives voice to the identity carried in the name.
onomastos: Named, renowned.
ὀνομαστός
What is named becomes known; the verse’s conflict concerns a nature made public.
παραδιδόντες
paradidontes
GROWS FROM
δίδωμι (didōmi), with παρά (para-)
To give; with παρά-, to give over or hand from one party into another’s keeping.
The Greek makes the transfer in “delivering you up” explicit: one party hands a person over to another. The same word family names handed-down tradition and a betrayer, tying this custody chain to the wider act of passing something on.
ALSO GROWS
paradosis: Tradition; something handed down.
παράδοσις
The same family describes what is passed from one person or generation to another.
paradotēs: One who hands someone over; a betrayer.
παραδότης
This branch makes the handover’s human cost visible: a person is transferred into another’s power.
THE PATTERN
Publicly bearing God’s name or cause can expose the bearer to reproach and coercive power.
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.THE THREAD
For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.The same name-root makes clear what the suffering attaches to: Jesus’ name is the nature a person bears in public. Luke’s hands, courts, and prisons show what opposition to that name can look like.
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