What Does Luke 3:15 Mean in the King James?
And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not;
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
Their question about John is whether the awaited anointing rests on him.
THE MEANING
Expectation can make the mind circle a person with a live question: does this one embody the anointing everyone awaits? The verse holds the question open; longing is real before recognition is settled.
THE ROOT
Χριστόν
Christon
GROWS FROM
χρι-
To anoint, to apply oil.
“Christ” in this verse is Christon. The Greek title Χριστός (Christos, the anointed one) carries the action of anointing inside it. The crowd is asking whether John bears that calling, not merely whether he fits a familiar label.
ALSO GROWS
chriō: To anoint.
χρίω
This verb names the action contained in Χριστός: the one they are wondering about would be marked out by anointing.
chrisma: An anointing; that with which one is anointed.
χρῖσμα
This noun shares the χρ- consonants and makes the root’s action tangible as an anointing.
διελογίζοντο
dielogizonto
GROWS FROM
λογ-
To reckon, consider, or reason.
“mused” in this verse is dielogizonto. The verb διελογίζοντο (dielogizonto, they were reasoning) presents their wondering as active consideration. The same λογ- family names reckoning, so expectation becomes a question they turn over together in their hearts.
ALSO GROWS
logizomai: To reckon, count, or consider.
λογίζομαι
This verb shares the λογ- root and shows the calculating quality within their wondering about John.
logismos: A reckoning, calculation, or thought.
λογισμός
This noun shares the same root and makes visible the process of weighing whether John is the anointed one.
THE PATTERN
Expectation seeks a person through whom the promised divine action becomes visible.
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.THE THREAD
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,Luke 3:15 asks whether John is Χριστός (Christos, the anointed one). Luke 4:18 uses ἔχρισέν (echrisen, anointed), from χρίω (chriō, to anoint), letting the verb reveal the action contained in the title.
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