What Does Luke 7:18 Mean in the King James?
And the disciples of John shewed him of all these things.
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 is seen becomes a message carried by learners: John receives the report through the people who have heard and witnessed these things.
THE MEANING
The verse places you in a living chain of witness: what is happening reaches you through people who have heard and seen it. John’s learners carry the whole report to him instead of keeping it to themselves.
THE ROOT
ἀπήγγειλαν
apēngeilan
GROWS FROM
ἀγγέλλω
angellō
To announce or report; to carry a message.
The verb translated “shewed” belongs to the same message-bearing word family as “messenger.” Showing and telling meet here: what Jesus does reaches John through a report his learners carry.
ALSO GROWS
angelos: Messenger
ἄγγελος
The messenger noun shares the same message-bearing stem; John’s disciples carry what they have witnessed.
euangelion: Good news, or good message
εὐαγγέλιον
This word names a good announcement; the verse likewise shows how an account of what has happened travels from person to person.
μαθηταί
mathētai
GROWS FROM
μανθάνω
manthanō
To learn.
The word translated “disciples” names learners. The verse shows learning becoming transmission: those formed by what they have received now carry the report onward.
ALSO GROWS
mathētēs: Learner, disciple
μαθητής
This is the singular form behind “disciples,” keeping the emphasis on people who learn.
mathēteuō: To make or become a learner, to disciple
μαθητεύω
The same learning family can describe the forming of learners, while this verse shows learners passing on what they have heard.
THE PATTERN
Witness becomes shared understanding when what is seen and heard is carried to others.
We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!For we can not but speak the things which we have seen and heard.THE THREAD
Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.The Greek reporting verb from the same message-bearing family appears again when Jesus tells the messengers to report to John what they have seen and heard. The first report arrives; the next is grounded in witnessed change.
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