What Does Luke 23:19 Mean in the King James?
(Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)
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 word for sedition is built from “standing,” a Greek root family that also gives us the word for resurrection.
THE MEANING
You are looking at a sentence that holds two realities together: a public uprising and a murder, both named as reasons one person is confined. Neither the unrest in the city nor the bloodshed disappears inside the other.
THE ROOT
στάσις
stasis
GROWS FROM
ἵστημι
histēmi
To stand, set, or establish. Στάσις carries the sense of a standing or position and, in this verse, an uprising.
English gives “sedition” its own political label, while στάσις preserves the image of a standing that becomes an uprising. The same root family forms ἀνάστασις, “resurrection” or “rising,” revealing how one family of words can name both civic upheaval and a rising to life.
ALSO GROWS
histēmi: To stand, set, or establish.
ἵστημι
This verb names the standing beneath στάσις: the word for sedition carries the image of taking a stand.
anastasis: A rising; resurrection.
ἀνάστασις
This word belongs to the same root family and carries the image of standing up, a striking companion to στάσις in this verse.
φυλακή
phylakē
GROWS FROM
φυλάσσω
phylassō
To guard, watch, or keep.
The word rendered “prison” belongs to the language of guarding and keeping watch. “Cast into prison” also carries the concrete image of being placed under guard.
ALSO GROWS
phylassō: To guard, watch, or keep.
φυλάσσω
This verb shows the action at the heart of φυλακή: watching over someone or something in custody.
phylax: A guard or watchman.
φύλαξ
This related word names the person doing the guarding, making the watchful custody inside “prison” visible.
THE PATTERN
The ἵστημι word family moves between a standing that disrupts public life and a rising associated with life beyond death.
For we are in danger to be called in question for this day’s uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;THE THREAD
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:The Greek word for “resurrection,” ἀνάστασις, belongs to the same ἵστημι family as στάσις, the word rendered “sedition” here. The shared image of standing or rising links civic upheaval with rising to life, while each verse gives that image its own meaning.
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