What Does Luke 3:10 Mean in the King James?
And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
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 hidden hinge is that repentance becomes a question of what gets made visible in life.
THE MEANING
This question lives wherever an inward turning reaches the next choice: what takes shape now? Here, the answer is concrete sharing and honest use of power.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that turning can remain only an inward claim: the people ask for its visible form, and the following answer names actions.
THE ROOT
ποιήσωμεν
poiēsōmen
GROWS FROM
ποιέω (poieō), stem ποιε- (poie-)
To do, make, or bring about.
“do” in this verse is poiēsōmen. The verb carries the sense of making something happen, so the question reaches beyond intention to what takes shape. The answer that follows names sharing food and clothing and refusing extortion: turning becomes visible in action.
ALSO GROWS
poiētēs: Doer, maker.
ποιητής
This related noun names someone whose action puts a word into practice; James uses it in “doers of the word” (James 1:22).
poiēma: Thing made, workmanship.
ποίημα
This branch names what making brings into being, echoing the question of what a changed heart brings about.
THE PATTERN
When a word reaches the heart, the response becomes a question about what to do next.
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.THE THREAD
Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?The question uses the same Greek verb ποιέω (poieō, “do” or “make”) as the crowd’s question here. Jesus answers in the next verse by naming trust in the one God sent as God’s work, showing how the question of action can reach into what a person trusts.
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