What Does Luke 22:65 Mean in the King James?
And many other things blasphemously spake they against 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 violence here is verbal, but it is still violence: the text names the words as slander aimed at him.
THE MEANING
The verse recognizes contempt spoken against a person as real harm. Repeated words can form a sustained attack, even without a visible wound.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that words cannot wound because they leave no visible mark.
THE ROOT
βλασφημοῦντες
blasphēmountes
GROWS FROM
βλασφημ-
blasphēm-
to slander, speak abusively, or reproach
“blasphemously” in this verse is blasphēmountes. The Greek word names slanderous, abusive speech, marking the utterance itself as an attack upon a person. Its target is explicit: these words are directed against him, not left as irreverence in the abstract.
ALSO GROWS
blasphēmia: slander; abusive speech or reproach
βλασφημία
The related noun names this kind of speech as an act of slander.
blasphēmos: slanderous; abusive
βλάσφημος
The related adjective describes speech or a speaker carrying that reproach.
THE PATTERN
Scripture treats words as actions with power to wound, and shows that receiving them need not mean returning the wound.
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:THE THREAD
And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.Luke uses the same Greek verb, ἐβλασφήμει (eblasphēmēi, “he was railing” or “speaking abusively”), from βλασφημέω (blasphēmeō, “to slander or speak abusively”). The shared verb makes the continuity audible: this taunt is another instance of speech aimed at him as slander.
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