What Does Luke 21:29 Mean in the King James?
And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;
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
A parable places the unseen beside the seen, so a tree’s ordinary change becomes a way to perceive what is approaching.
THE MEANING
The world around you carries readable signs of change. A fig tree and every other tree show a shift through the growth already visible. What is unfolding can make an approaching transition perceptible before it fully arrives.
THE ROOT
παραβολή
parabolē
GROWS FROM
βάλλω
To throw or cast; παραβολή combines this root with παρά (beside), giving the sense of placing one thing alongside another.
A parable sets a visible thing beside a larger truth so the relationship can be perceived. Here the trees are not decoration: their changing growth gives the reader a way to recognize what is approaching.
ALSO GROWS
ballō: To throw or cast.
βάλλω
The root gives the image of setting one thing before you.
paraballō: To place beside or compare.
παραβάλλω
This compound makes the parable’s structure clear: one reality is placed beside another.
parabolē: A comparison or parable.
παραβολή
The fig tree and all the trees are placed beside the approaching change so their visible growth can illuminate it.
THE PATTERN
A change in season becomes legible through signs already unfolding in the created world.
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is.And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?THE THREAD
When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.The next verse names what to notice: the trees’ new growth makes the nearness of summer visible. Their own changing form gives you a way to perceive the approaching season.
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