What Does Luke 8:1 Mean in the King James?
And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him,
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
God’s governance moves into every place through a message announced as good news.
THE MEANING
God’s governance moves through cities and villages as good news, and the twelve are with him as it travels. The message belongs in ordinary places and shared life now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This dissolves the belief that God’s governance is limited to a sacred center: here it moves through both cities and villages.
THE ROOT
βασιλεία
basileia
GROWS FROM
βασιλ-
basil-
Royal rule, reign, or governance.
βασιλεία (basileia) names the active rule of a king as well as the realm under that rule. Here, “kingdom of God” carries God’s governance into the places the message reaches.
ALSO GROWS
basileus: king
βασιλεύς
The related word names the ruler whose authority gives βασιλεία its sense of reign.
basileuō: to reign, to rule as king
βασιλεύω
This verb makes the living action within “kingdom” audible: rule is something exercised.
εὐαγγελιζόμενος
euangelizomenos
GROWS FROM
εὐαγγελ-
euangel-
To announce good news; from εὖ (eu, good) and the messenger/message word family.
The English phrase “shewing the glad tidings” translates one Greek verb: announcing something as good news. Its family links the announcement to both the messenger and the good news itself, so the message of God’s reign is carried into the towns as it is proclaimed.
ALSO GROWS
angelos: messenger
ἄγγελος
This related word reveals the messenger-family inside the announcement: the news is carried and delivered.
euangelion: good news, gospel
εὐαγγέλιον
This noun names the good news that the related verb εὐαγγελίζομαι announces.
THE PATTERN
God’s reign is announced as good news that moves across communities.
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!And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.THE THREAD
And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.Luke 4:43 repeats βασιλεία (basileia, royal rule) and uses εὐαγγελίζομαι (euangelizomai, announce good news), the same word family as “shewing the glad tidings” here. “Other cities also” makes the movement of that announcement explicit.
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