What Does Luke 22:11 Mean in the King James?
And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
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 word for “guestchamber” carries the sense of a place where travelers loosen their hold on the road and settle in to share a meal.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks to you through a direct request: the Master asks where the guest room is because he intends to eat the Passover with his learners. The room becomes the setting where people settle, share a meal, and learn together.
THE ROOT
κατάλυμα
kataluma
GROWS FROM
λύω
λύω (lyō) means to loosen or unbind.
“guestchamber” in this verse is kataluma. Κατάλυμα (kataluma) means a lodging place or guest room, from καταλύω (katalyō), “to lodge” or literally “to loosen down.” The word family brings loosening into the idea of lodging: a place where travelers settle and are received.
ALSO GROWS
lyō: To loosen or unbind.
λύω
This base verb carries the sense of loosening within the word family for lodging.
katalyō: To lodge or stay; literally, to loosen down.
καταλύω
This verb is the direct family link between loosening and the guest room named in the verse.
kataluma: A lodging place or guest room.
κατάλυμα
The verse uses this word for the place where the Master and his learners will settle to eat.
μαθητῶν
mathētōn
GROWS FROM
μαθ-
μαθ- (math-) carries the sense of learning.
The Greek word μαθητῶν (mathētōn), translated “disciples,” names learners. The meal is shared with people whose identity is still being shaped through learning.
ALSO GROWS
mathētēs: A learner or pupil.
μαθητής
This is the singular form of the word translated “disciples” in the verse.
mathēma: A lesson or something learned.
μάθημα
This related word shows learning as something received and carried from one encounter to the next.
THE PATTERN
A place becomes a setting for encounter when it is opened to receive others.
And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.THE THREAD
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.Luke uses the same Greek word, κατάλυμα (kataluma), for the lodging place here and the “inn” where there is no room at Jesus’ birth. That echo makes the availability of a place to stay part of Luke’s story around Jesus.
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