What Does Luke 24:38 Mean in the King James?
And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
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
What troubles you is shown as movement: inner reckonings rise into the heart, where they can be seen and questioned.
THE MEANING
Jesus meets you where unease stirs and thoughts rise within your heart. His question brings that inner movement into view without declaring that every thought is true or settled.
THE ROOT
τεταραγμένοι
tetaragmenoi
GROWS FROM
ταράσσω
tarassō
To stir, agitate, or disturb.
The word pictures trouble as agitation, like something stirred into motion. The same verb describes a troubled heart and, in John 5:4, water being stirred; the image lets you feel unrest as movement rather than a fixed identity.
ALSO GROWS
tarassō: To stir or agitate; rendered “troubled” in John 14:1.
ταράσσω
The same verb names the heart’s disturbance there, linking this question to a direct address to the troubled heart.
etarachthē: “Was troubled,” from the same verb, in John 12:27.
ἐταράχθη
It shows the verb can name disturbance arising within a person, not only an outside force.
διαλογισμοί
dialogismoi
GROWS FROM
διαλογίζομαι
dialogizomai
To reason or reckon things through; the noun describes reasonings or deliberations.
“Thoughts” here carries the shade of inner reasoning: ideas being weighed and worked through. The next verb says these reasonings “arise,” so the verse presents them as movements entering awareness, not simply settled convictions.
ALSO GROWS
dialogizomai: To reason, consider, or deliberate.
διαλογίζομαι
This related verb makes clear that these thoughts involve an inward process of reasoning.
logismos: A reasoning, calculation, or consideration.
λογισμός
This related noun shares the reasoning stem and reinforces the sense of thoughts being weighed within.
THE PATTERN
Inner unrest is brought into words and met with a direct address.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.THE THREAD
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.John uses the same Greek verb for “troubled” and the same word for “heart” that appear in Luke 24:38. The repeated pairing opens the question as a direct meeting with inner agitation.
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