What Does Luke 22:51 Mean in the King James?
And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him.
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 wounded man is restored while the arrest is still unfolding; healing does not wait for the conflict to end.
THE MEANING
The injury is met at its point of impact: Jesus touches the servant’s ear and heals him. Even as the arrest continues, the wounded person is more than the harm done to him.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that once violence has wounded someone, the damage is final.
THE ROOT
ἰάσατο
iāsato
GROWS FROM
ἰα-
ia-
To heal or cure; to restore from injury or illness.
“healed” in this verse is iāsato. The Greek verb belongs to a word family that also names healing and the healer. Here it describes a concrete restoration: the servant is cured at the very place the blow has wounded.
ALSO GROWS
íasis: Healing, cure
ἴασις
This noun names the restoration enacted by the verb in the verse.
iatrós: Physician, healer
ἰατρός
This related word names one who heals, keeping the verse’s action within a family of healing and restoration.
THE PATTERN
Healing meets harm where it has entered and restores what injury has interrupted.
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.THE THREAD
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,Luke uses the same Greek healing verb family, ἰάομαι (iáomai, heal), in the words “to heal the brokenhearted.” The restoration of the servant’s ear makes that healing tangible in the middle of an arrest: a wounded person is healed even as the surrounding conflict continues.
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