What Does Luke 22:16 Mean in the King James?
For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
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 meal is held open until the promise within it reaches fullness under God’s governance.
THE MEANING
Jesus holds the meal open until its meaning reaches fullness within God’s governance. The verse meets you in that interval now: what is shared is real, and its promised fullness is still ahead.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that a sacred meal must contain its whole meaning in the moment it is received; here, the meal is real and still awaits its fullness.
THE ROOT
πληρωθῇ
plērōthē
GROWS FROM
πληρόω
plēroō
to fill, make full, bring to fullness
The word translated “fulfilled” carries the image of being filled to its measure. The meal’s promise is not exhausted at the table; it reaches fullness within God’s governance.
ALSO GROWS
plērēs: full, complete
πλήρης
This related word makes fulfillment sound like something brought to its full measure.
plērōma: fullness, full measure
πλήρωμα
Its shared word family echoes the fullness the meal awaits.
βασιλείᾳ
basileia
GROWS FROM
βασιλεία
basileia
kingship, royal rule, reign
The Greek word can name royal rule and the realm under it. “The kingdom of God” therefore carries the sense of God’s active governance, where the meal’s fullness arrives.
ALSO GROWS
basileus: king
βασιλεύς
The related word names the ruler whose authority gives shape to the reign.
basileuō: to reign, rule as king
βασιλεύω
This verb makes the active sense of governance audible in “kingdom.”
THE PATTERN
God’s governance is pictured as a feast whose promised fullness is received at the table.
And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.THE THREAD
And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.Luke 24:44 uses the same Greek word family for “fulfilled” when speaking of what was written concerning Jesus. That shared language places the meal’s awaited fullness within a wider completion centered on him.
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