What Does Luke 22:15 Mean in the King James?
And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
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
Jesus longs to share this meal as suffering draws near, the Greek repeats “desire” as noun and verb.
THE MEANING
You meet desire and suffering together: the longing is full, and suffering is named as near. The shared table does not cancel pain; it stands with it at the threshold. Longing remains real even when suffering is ahead.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that suffering proves desire has gone cold: here, longing remains as suffering nears.
THE ROOT
ἐπιθυμίᾳ
epithymia
GROWS FROM
θυμ-
The Greek stem thym- carries the sense of inward impulse or passion.
The Greek pairs the noun “desire” with the verb “I desired,” both built on θυμ- (thym-, inward impulse or passion). That repetition makes the longing emphatic: the meal is something Jesus wants to share, even with suffering close ahead.
ALSO GROWS
epithymeō: to desire, long for
ἐπιθυμέω
The verb from this word-family is repeated in the verse, turning desire into an active longing.
thymos: passion, inward drive; also anger in some contexts
θυμός
This branch shows the force carried by desire: it is an inward movement, not a casual preference.
παθεῖν
pathein
GROWS FROM
παθ-
The Greek stem path- means to undergo or experience, especially hardship.
The word translated “suffer” belongs to a family centered on what is undergone or experienced. The verse places that coming experience beside a deeply desired meal, holding longing and hardship in one frame.
ALSO GROWS
pathos: an experience, passion, or suffering
πάθος
It keeps the sense of something felt and undergone beside the verse’s approaching suffering.
pathēma: an experience or suffering
πάθημα
This branch names what is undergone, echoing the hardship Jesus says lies ahead.
THE PATTERN
The Passover meal marks a threshold where deliverance is near and what comes next is already in view.
And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’s passover.But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.THE THREAD
For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.“Have desired” comes from the same Greek word-family as the doubled desire in Luke 22:15. In Matthew the longing reaches toward seeing and hearing; here it reaches toward sharing the Passover meal.
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