What Does Luke 7:19 Mean in the King James?
And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?
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 question itself is sent: John’s uncertainty travels to Jesus through the same Greek word family that gives us “apostle,” a person sent.
THE MEANING
The verse gives your unanswered question a destination: it can be carried toward the one you are trying to recognize. It lets you name both possibilities, the one who comes, or another, without pretending the answer is already clear. Recognition begins with the question brought into the open, before its answer arrives.
THE ROOT
ἀπέστειλεν
apesteilen
GROWS FROM
ἀποστέλλω
apostellō
to send forth, dispatch
This word family also names a messenger who is sent: ἀπόστολος (apostolos), “messenger, one sent.” John’s words travel through dispatched disciples, so the act of asking is itself movement toward Jesus.
ALSO GROWS
apostolos: messenger; one sent
ἀπόστολος
The disciples carry John’s question as messengers sent to Jesus.
apostolē: sending; commission
ἀποστολή
This noun names the act or commission of sending, linking John’s question to a larger movement of messages carried onward.
THE PATTERN
The message advances through people sent to carry it onward.
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.There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.THE THREAD
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.Luke’s “sent” and John’s “sent” are forms of the same verb, apostellō. The root that carries John’s question to Jesus also describes John as sent from God, linking the one who asks with the one who prepares the way.
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