What Does Luke 24:10 Mean in the King James?
It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.
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 sent ones are first shown receiving the message from women.
THE MEANING
This verse places you on the receiving side of a report carried by women whose names are spoken aloud. Those called to carry the message stand here as listeners, while the women are its witnesses now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The assumption that commissioned messengers must always be the first source of the message is undone: here, the apostles receive it from the women.
THE ROOT
ἀποστόλους
apostolous
GROWS FROM
ἀποστέλλω (apostellō), from ἀπό (apo) + στέλλω (stellō)
To send away or forth; to dispatch.
“Apostles” names people who are sent forth. Here, the sent ones do not originate the report: they receive it from women, so their role includes listening as well as carrying a message.
ALSO GROWS
apostellō: Send forth or dispatch.
ἀποστέλλω
This is the verb behind the apostles’ name and makes their sending explicit.
apostolē: A sending, commission, or mission.
ἀποστολή
The word for a commission belongs to the same sending family.
apostolos: A sent one, messenger.
ἀπόστολος
This is the singular form of the title used for the apostles receiving the women’s report.
ἔλεγον
elegon
GROWS FROM
λέγω (legō; stem λεγ-)
To say, speak, or tell.
The Greek imperfect presents their telling as unfolding, where English “told” can sound like a single completed act. The women’s speech is the report itself, and the apostles are shown receiving it.
ALSO GROWS
logos: A word, account, or message.
λόγος
This related word makes visible how spoken words become a report that can be received.
dialogos: Conversation or exchange of speech.
διάλογος
The same word family can describe speech moving between people, as it does here from the women to the apostles.
THE PATTERN
A message can reach recognized leaders through a witness outside their expected role, placing them in the position of receivers.
And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.THE THREAD
And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,Mark uses the sending verb ἀποστέλλω (apostellō), from the same word family as “apostles” in Luke. Mark names their sending; Luke shows them receiving a report before they carry one.
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