What Does Luke 24:20 Mean in the King James?
And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified 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
The handover is the hinge: the rulers pass Jesus into a judgment of death, and the next clause names crucifixion as its enactment.
THE MEANING
You see condemnation move through human hands: rulers hand Jesus to a judgment of death, and the next clause gives that judgment bodily form in crucifixion. The verse holds the transfer and the execution together, keeping the handover visible as part of the violence.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The violence begins only with the execution; the sentence and the handover are neutral steps.
THE ROOT
παρέδωκαν
paredōkan
GROWS FROM
δίδωμι
didōmi
To give; with παρά (para), to give over or hand across.
The same Greek verb family appears as “delivered” here and “betrayed” in Luke 22:22: both render παραδίδωμι (paradidōmi, “hand over”). English gives two names to one transfer, showing how Jesus passes from the rulers’ hands into the death sentence.
ALSO GROWS
paradosis: Handing over; transmission; tradition.
παράδοσις
This branch names what is passed from one person or generation to another, revealing the transfer built into the handover.
dosis: Giving; a gift.
δόσις
It preserves the base act of giving inside the forceful verb: here Jesus is given over into the judgment of death.
κρίμα θανάτου
krima thanatou
GROWS FROM
κρίνω
krinō
To judge, decide, or distinguish.
“condemned to death” in this verse is krima thanatou. The Greek phrase εἰς κρίμα θανάτου (eis krima thanatou, “to a judgment of death”) leaves both the decision and its outcome in view. The κρίνω (krinō, “judge, decide”) family connects the act of judging with the judgment handed down, then the next clause shows that judgment carried out.
ALSO GROWS
krisis: Judgment; decision.
κρίσις
This branch names the act or result of deciding, keeping the ruling visible within the verse’s movement toward execution.
kritēs: Judge.
κριτής
This branch names the one who decides, connecting human agents to the judgment passed on Jesus.
THE PATTERN
The handover is the hinge where a human agent’s act meets death and what follows.
And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.THE THREAD
Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.John uses παραδούς (paradous, “the one who handed over”) for the person who delivers Jesus to Pilate, from the same verb family as Luke’s παρέδωκαν (paredōkan, “they handed over”). The connection makes the transfer’s human agent visible and places that act alongside the authority Pilate receives from above.
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