What Does Luke 6:17 Mean in the King James?
And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judæa and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;
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 verse puts hearing and healing on the same footing: the crowd comes with both needs at once.
THE MEANING
You can need to hear and still need healing; these needs do not cancel each other. The one who comes down stands on level ground among people arriving from near and far, holding listening and restoration within one approach.
THE ROOT
ἰαθῆναι
iathēnai
GROWS FROM
ἰα-
ia-
Heal, cure
“healed” in this verse is iathēnai. The verse names healing as a reason for coming alongside hearing, not as an afterthought. The Greek word family links the act of healing with healing itself and the healer.
ALSO GROWS
iasis: Healing, cure
ἴασις
This related noun makes restoration itself part of the same word family as being healed.
iatros: Physician, healer
ἰατρός
The family holds the one who heals alongside the act of healing.
ἀκοῦσαι
akousai
GROWS FROM
ἀκου-
akou-
Hear, listen
“hear” in this verse is akousai. The verse pairs hearing with being healed as reasons for coming. This Greek family can also extend into heeding elsewhere, though this verse names hearing without requiring that added sense.
ALSO GROWS
akoē: Hearing; a report or message heard
ἀκοή
It shows the same root can name both the act of hearing and what is heard.
hypakouō: Heed, obey
ὑπακούω
This related verb shows how hearing can carry the sense of response in other contexts, while the verse itself simply says they come to hear.
THE PATTERN
The movement toward restoration brings hearing and healing together as ways people come toward life.
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.THE THREAD
And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.The word rendered “healed” here and in the next verse belongs to ἰάομαι (iaomai, to heal or cure). Verse 17 names healing as one reason the people come; verse 19 shows the whole multitude receiving it.
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