What Does Luke 9:26 Mean in the King James?
For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father’s, and of the holy angels.
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 verse holds up a mirror: the one who disowns Jesus and his words meets that same disowning when the Son of Man appears in weight and recognition.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks now: when someone distances themselves from Jesus and his words to avoid shame, that refusal is answered at the Son of Man’s appearing. He comes bearing the weight of his own glory, his Father’s, and the set-apart messengers’ glory.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that distancing yourself from Jesus to save face leaves the relationship untouched; the verse presents that distance as consequential.
THE ROOT
ἐπαισχυνθῇ
epaischynthē
GROWS FROM
αἰσχ-
aisch-
shame, disgrace
“ashamed” in this verse is epaischynthē. The aisch- family holds shame and disgrace together, and the same verb is turned back on the person who hides their association with Jesus and his words. The verse makes that hidden distance visible at his appearing.
ALSO GROWS
aischynē: shame, disgrace
αἰσχύνη
It names the state that the verse’s verb describes: the recoil from being associated with someone.
aischros: shameful, disgraceful
αἰσχρός
It shows the same word family judging what brings disgrace, linking private shame with public standing.
λόγους
logous
GROWS FROM
λογ-
log-
word, account, expressed thought
“words” in this verse is logous. The Greek word carries more than isolated sayings: it is the expressed word or account a person is willing to stand with. The verse joins association with Jesus to association with what he says.
ALSO GROWS
logos: word, message, account
λόγος
This is the singular form behind “words,” keeping the sayings together as an expressed message.
logizomai: reckon, consider
λογίζομαι
The related word for reckoning shows how the word-family can carry an account or considered statement, not merely a sound.
THE PATTERN
At the unveiling, a person’s present identification with the Son of Man is answered with public recognition or disowning.
I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;THE THREAD
For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,Hebrews uses the same Greek verb family to say that the Son is unashamed to call the sanctified his brothers. That shared root brings the reciprocal image into focus: this verse names the consequence of disowning him, while Hebrews shows him openly claiming those joined to him.
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