What Does Luke 22:35 Mean in the King James?
And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.
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
Being sent without provisions did not leave them short of what they needed.
THE MEANING
You can be without the usual provisions and still find that nothing essential is missing. The verse holds absence and sufficiency together: no purse, scrip, or shoes, yet the answer is “Nothing.”
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the assumption that a lack of visible provisions necessarily means a lack of what is needed.
THE ROOT
ὑστερήσατε
hysterēsate
GROWS FROM
ὑστερ-
hyster-
To be behind, come short, or be deficient.
The verb rendered “lacked” carries the image of falling behind or coming short. The disciples’ “Nothing” says that going out without the listed gear did not leave them short of what they needed.
ALSO GROWS
hysterēma: A deficiency or something left lacking.
ὑστέρημα
It shows the same root naming a specific shortfall, making the disciples’ answer a clear denial that anything was missing.
hysterēsis: A state of lack or want.
ὑστέρησις
This branch preserves the sense of need beneath the English word “lacked.”
THE PATTERN
Provision can meet a need even when what is gathered or carried is limited.
And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.THE THREAD
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;Luke’s “lacked” and Romans’ “come short” are forms of the same Greek verb ὑστερέω (hystereō, to fall short or be deficient). The shared root shows how one word can name both concrete need and coming short; here, the answer is that no shortfall remains in what they needed.
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