What Does Luke 23:55 Mean in the King James?

And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.

Luke 23:55 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The tomb is also a memorial, so the women’s careful seeing makes it a place that holds what must be remembered.

THE MEANING

You meet grief with its details still held in view: the women behold the tomb and how the body is laid. The place carries memory, so what is seen remains a witness rather than dissolving into the loss.

THE ROOT

μνημεῖον

mnēmeion

GROWS FROM

μνημ-

mnēm-

memory, remembrance

English “sepulchre” foregrounds burial, while the Greek word also belongs to the memory family: the tomb is a memorial. The women’s exact seeing makes the place a witness, not an empty backdrop.

ALSO GROWS

mnēmē: memory, remembrance

μνήμη

This related word reveals the memory carried within the word for tomb.

mimnēskomai: to remember, recall

μιμνῄσκομαι

This branch shows memory as an act that can bring what was seen back into view.

anamnēsis: remembrance

ἀνάμνησις

This related form connects the memorial place with remembrance that is actively renewed.

THE PATTERN

Careful witness preserves details so memory can carry them forward.

And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

Exodus 12:14 · KJVA day becomes a memorial so what has been witnessed remains present to memory.

He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,

Luke 24:6 · KJVThe call to remember meets the details the reader has already seen held at the tomb.

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;

1 John 1:1 · KJVSeeing, hearing, and touching together preserve a witness that can be carried forward.

THE THREAD

He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,

Luke 24:6 · KJV

The tomb word carries the remembrance family, and the call to remember here carries the same root. What the women behold as a place of memory remains in view when the words of resurrection return.

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