What Does Luke 21:17 Mean in the King James?

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.

Luke 21:17 · KJV

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 name that provokes hatred is not a label but the nature of Jesus made visible.

THE MEANING

Your association with Jesus places you under the hatred of people because of the nature his name carries. The hostility reaches beyond a word to the character that name represents.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

This undoes the belief that the nature represented by Jesus’ name must be acceptable to everyone to be true; the verse says hatred can gather around it.

THE ROOT

ὄνομα

onoma

GROWS FROM

ὄνομα

onoma

Name; the person or character represented by a name.

Here, “my name” carries the nature of Jesus, not merely a spoken label. The hatred is directed at what that name represents.

ALSO GROWS

onomazō: To name or call by name.

ὀνομάζω

Naming makes the person or nature being named known.

onomastos: Named, renowned.

ὀνομαστός

A name can stand for the character or reputation by which someone is known.

THE PATTERN

When a life bears the nature of God’s name, opposition can gather around that nature.

Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

Isaiah 66:5 · KJVThe hatred and exclusion come explicitly “for my name’s sake,” just as in Luke.

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

John 15:18 · KJVThe hostility toward you is bound to the world’s prior hostility toward Jesus.

If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

1 Peter 4:14 · KJVReproach gathers around the name and the nature it represents.

THE THREAD

But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.

John 15:21 · KJV

John repeats the same phrase, “for my name’s sake,” using the same Greek word for name. It opens Luke’s line further: the hostility is tied to the nature Jesus represents, while the persecutors do not know the one who sent him.

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