What Does Luke 9:32 Mean in the King James?
But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood 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
As the weight of sleep lifts, they see the weight of his glory.
THE MEANING
You can be near what is present and still be too weighed down to perceive it. As the heaviness lifts, sight opens to his glory and the two who stand with him.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that what you cannot perceive must be absent; heaviness can obscure what is already there.
THE ROOT
βεβαρημένοι
bebarēmenoi
GROWS FROM
βαρέω
bareō
To weigh down or burden.
“heavy” in this verse is bebarēmenoi. The verse describes sleep as a weight pressing on them. When they wake, they see his δόξα (dóxa), glory understood as weight too: two distinct Greek words place the weight that obscures sight beside the weight they behold.
ALSO GROWS
barýs: Heavy.
βαρύς
It echoes the condition of the disciples: sleep makes them heavy before their sight opens.
báros: Weight or burden.
βάρος
It makes the verse’s movement vivid: the burden of sleep gives way to seeing glory as weight.
δόξα
dóxa
GROWS FROM
δοκέω
dokéō
To think, seem, or regard; the word family develops toward reputation, honor, and glory.
The word carries the sense of recognized honor and worth; here, glory also bears the sense of weight. The disciples move from sleep’s burden into sight of what is weighty.
ALSO GROWS
doxázō: To honor or glorify.
δοξάζω
It shows the same word family extending from recognized worth to the act of honoring.
éndoxos: Honored or renowned.
ἔνδοξος
It shares the family’s sense of standing in honor, giving more depth to the glory they see.
THE PATTERN
When wakefulness opens perception, what was unseen becomes visible.
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.THE THREAD
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.Luke says the disciples wake and see his glory; John uses the same Greek word, δόξα (dóxa), for the glory beheld among us. The shared word opens the mountaintop sight into a broader claim: his weight is present among us.
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