What Does Luke 4:21 Mean in the King James?
And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
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 promise reaches its fullness in the very hearing of it, making fulfillment present now.
THE MEANING
The scripture Jesus has just read is fulfilled in the listeners’ hearing. The promise is no longer only words on a page: what it announces is present to them in this moment.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief this undoes is that the promise can only remain something distant, still waiting to arrive.
THE ROOT
πεπλήρωται
peplērōtai
GROWS FROM
πληρ- (plēr-), the stem of πληρόω (plēroō)
To fill, make full, bring to completion.
The form πεπλήρωται (peplērōtai, “has been fulfilled”) presents the fulfillment as accomplished with a continuing result. Its root also carries the sense of filling to fullness, so the promise is present in the very hearing of it.
ALSO GROWS
plēroō: To fill or bring to completion.
πληρόω
This is the verb family of the verse’s “fulfilled”: what the scripture announces has reached fullness in the listeners’ hearing.
plērōma: Fullness; that which fills.
πλήρωμα
This related word makes visible the idea inside “fulfilled”: the promise is not just repeated, but present in its fullness.
THE PATTERN
A spoken word reaches its fullness as it becomes present in the world and in the hearer.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.THE THREAD
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.The word translated “fulfil” belongs to the same Greek verb family as “fulfilled” here. In Luke, that fullness is heard as present today; in Matthew, it is the law and prophets brought to their full expression.
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