What Does Luke 7:22 Mean in the King James?
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 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 final sign is that good news reaches the poor: announcement itself belongs beside restored sight, movement, cleansing, hearing, and life.
THE MEANING
The signs form one present picture of blocked capacities opening: the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, and the dead are raised. The poor also receive good news, so restoration reaches both the body and the person’s place in the world. Deliverance becomes visible and heard.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that the poor stand outside the reach of good news: the final line places them among its direct recipients.
THE ROOT
εὐαγγελίζονται
euangelizontai
GROWS FROM
εὐαγγελίζομαι
euangelizomai
to announce or bring good news
“the gospel is preached” in this verse is euangelizontai. English “preached” names the act, while this word family also carries the good news being delivered. The poor stand as direct recipients of an announcement whose meaning is itself good news.
ALSO GROWS
euangelion: good news, gospel
εὐαγγέλιον
The noun names the message this verb announces, joining the act of preaching to the content of good news.
angelos: messenger
ἄγγελος
The word family carries the image of news being delivered; the poor receive a message that arrives to them.
ἐγείρονται
egeirontai
GROWS FROM
ἐγείρω
egeirō
to wake, rouse, or raise up
The verb translated “are raised” also means to wake or rouse. It lets resurrection sound as awakening, a movement in the same field as the other capacities returning.
ALSO GROWS
diegeirō: to wake or awaken
διεγείρω
This compound carries the same root into the act of waking someone, keeping that sense present in the raising of the dead.
egersis: rising, resurrection
ἔγερσις
This related noun names the rising that the verb enacts.
THE PATTERN
Wholeness becomes visible as blocked capacities open and good news reaches the poor.
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.THE THREAD
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,The same Greek word family, εὐαγγελίζομαι (euangelizomai, “announce good news”), names the message brought to the poor in both verses. Luke 4:18 joins that announcement to release and restored sight, unfolding the signs in 7:22 as one movement toward wholeness.
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