What Does Luke 23:16 Mean in the King James?
I will therefore chastise him, and release 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
Pilate couples release to a beating, so freedom arrives carrying the mark of the harm inflicted before it.
THE MEANING
This verse holds punishment and release together: a person can be named for release and still be subjected to harm. The order matters, the injury becomes part of what authority calls release.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that being released proves the punishment was just.
THE ROOT
παιδεύσας
paideúsas
GROWS FROM
παιδ-
paid-
Child; the raising and training of a child.
“chastise” in this verse is paideúsas. This word belongs to the family of child-rearing and education as well as punishment. That range lets chastisement sound like correction by authority, even as the verse places it beside a release already being promised.
ALSO GROWS
pais: Child.
παῖς
This is the word-family’s starting point: chastisement carries the language of raising and training.
paideia: Upbringing, instruction, discipline.
παιδεία
Its range shows how correction can carry both teaching and punishment.
ἀπολύσω
apolýsō
GROWS FROM
λύω
lyō
Loosen, untie, unbind.
The word for release grows from the image of loosening or letting go. Here that letting-go is offered alongside chastisement, so the promised freedom bears the mark of the force used before it.
ALSO GROWS
lyō: Loosen, untie, unbind.
λύω
This root image gives release its sense of setting someone loose.
apolysis: Release, dismissal.
ἀπόλυσις
This noun from the same family names the act of letting someone go.
THE PATTERN
A promise of release or healing does not erase the injury carried inside the act that promises it.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.THE THREAD
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.Hebrews uses the same child-training word for chastening within a parent-child image. That shared root exposes the range packed into Luke’s “chastise”: correction language can name painful discipline, but it does not settle whether the punishment is just.
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