What Does Luke 23:56 Mean in the King James?
And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
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 women’s rest is not the opposite of care: preparation and commanded quiet belong to the same act of tending.
THE MEANING
Your care can move from preparation into quiet without becoming neglect. The women prepare the spices and ointments, then rest within the commandment; what they have prepared is held through the pause.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that stopping means care has been abandoned: their preparations remain while they keep the Sabbath.
THE ROOT
ἡσύχασαν
hēsychasan
GROWS FROM
ἡσυχ
ἡσυχ (hēsych) means quiet or stillness.
The verb is a form of ἡσυχάζω (hēsychazō), to be quiet or rest. “Rested” here carries the sense of entering quiet: the women’s Sabbath pause follows their preparations and gives their care a stillness within the commandment.
ALSO GROWS
hēsychazō: To be quiet, keep still, or rest.
ἡσυχάζω
This is the verb family of ἡσύχασαν; it presents rest as entering quiet.
hēsychia: Quietness or stillness.
ἡσυχία
This noun names the quiet the women enter when they rest on the Sabbath.
hēsychios: Quiet or tranquil.
ἡσύχιος
This related adjective carries the same quality of quiet into a person’s way of being.
THE PATTERN
Sabbath quiet holds a boundary around care: activity can be completed, then held within a set-apart pause.
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;THE THREAD
When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.“Held their peace” translates the same Greek verb, ἡσύχασαν (hēsychasan), used here for “rested.” In both verses, quiet marks a pause in which what has happened is allowed to stand.
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