What Does Luke 23:15 Mean in the King James?
No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto 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 verse measures the deed against death’s weight, and finds nothing in him that fits.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks now wherever a person stands beneath a charge: accusation and actual conduct are not the same thing. It names Jesus as having done nothing that carries the weight of death. His innocence is stated plainly, even when others still have power to harm him.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie this undoes is that a person facing death must have done something deserving it; a punishment does not prove the charge beneath it.
THE ROOT
ἄξιον
axion
GROWS FROM
ἀξι-
axio- word family
Having corresponding worth or weight; fitting, deserving.
“worthy” in this verse is axion. The word asks whether any deed measures up to the weight of death. The answer is no: nothing done by him fits that measure.
ALSO GROWS
axia: worth, value
ἀξία
This branch makes the verse’s judgment a question of what the deed is worth against the punishment.
axioō: consider worthy, deem fit
ἀξιόω
This branch shows that “worthy” is a judgment of fitness: no deed here is fit to bear death.
πεπραγμένον
pepragmenon
GROWS FROM
πρασσ-
prass-
To do, carry out, practice.
“done” in this verse is pepragmenon. The word makes the finding about conduct, what has actually been carried out. Paired with “worthy,” it places that conduct against death’s weight and finds no deed that bears it.
ALSO GROWS
praxis: action, practice
πρᾶξις
This branch keeps the focus on the actions being measured, rather than on accusation alone.
pragma: deed, matter, affair
πρᾶγμα
This branch likewise points to the concrete deed at issue in the verdict.
THE PATTERN
When someone is condemned without a deed that bears the punishment, the verdict exposes the violence of judgment.
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.THE THREAD
Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.Acts 23:29 repeats “worthy of death” and extends the measure to bonds. The shared phrase separates being accused from having a deed that can bear the punishment.
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