What Does Luke 8:36 Mean in the King James?
They also which saw it told them by what means he that was possessed of the devils was healed.
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 Greek verb rendered “healed” here is the same one rendered “made thee whole” two verses later: in this scene, healing is deliverance from what possesses him.
THE MEANING
The witnesses see a man freed from demonic possession, and they can tell how it happens. The word translated “healed” also carries the sense of being delivered and brought safely out. What held him is part of the report, but it is no longer the whole of who he is.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that demonic possession fixes a person’s identity and makes restoration impossible is undone here: witnesses now tell how that same person is delivered.
THE ROOT
ἐσώθη
esōthē
GROWS FROM
σῴζω
sōzō
Rescue, preserve, bring safely out.
Here ἐσώθη is the passive form of σῴζω: to be rescued or brought safely out. The same word family gives Greek words for deliverance and deliverer, so “healed” carries the shape of an exit from what held this man.
ALSO GROWS
sōtēria: Deliverance, rescue.
σωτηρία
This branch makes explicit the deliverance carried within the verb describing the man’s healing.
sōtēr: Deliverer, rescuer.
σωτήρ
The word for a deliverer shares the same root, linking the man’s changed condition to being brought out.
THE PATTERN
Healing and deliverance appear as one movement: a person is brought out from what held them into restored life.
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.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,How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.THE THREAD
And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.Luke uses the same verb, σῴζω (sōzō, deliver or bring safely out), when Jesus says the woman’s faith has “made thee whole.” The shared root places the man’s release from demons and the woman’s restoration under the same movement: a person is brought out from what held them.
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