What Does Luke 7:1 Mean in the King James?
Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum.
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 the KJV calls an ending is, in Greek, a filling to fullness: the words fill the people’s hearing before Jesus enters the town.
THE MEANING
As you hear, the word reaches fullness rather than stopping at information. The one who speaks also enters a concrete place, bringing what is heard into the space where life unfolds.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that hearing is the end of an encounter: here, the words reach fullness and presence moves into a lived place.
THE ROOT
ἐπλήρωσεν
eplērōsen
GROWS FROM
πληρ
To fill, make full, or bring to fullness.
The Greek verb translated “ended” also carries the sense of filling or bringing to fullness. The words are directed “into the hearing” of the people, so their completion is pictured as fullness arriving in their ears, just before Jesus enters Capernaum.
ALSO GROWS
plēroō: To fill or fulfill.
πληρόω
This is the verb’s dictionary form and shows the fullness carried by the word translated “ended.”
plērōma: Fullness; that which fills.
πλήρωμα
This related noun makes completion feel like fullness attained, not merely sound cut off.
plērēs: Full, complete.
πλήρης
This related adjective describes a state of fullness, the same root family’s quality rather than its action.
THE PATTERN
Fullness becomes perceptible through what it fills: hearing, inhabited space, and human life.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.THE THREAD
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.John uses πλήρης, from the same πληρ- root family, for “full.” Luke pictures words filling the people’s hearing before Jesus enters a town; John places fullness in the Word made flesh, dwelling among people.
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