What Does Luke 9:44 Mean in the King James?
Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.
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 same “into” that places the words in your ears carries the Son of Man into human hands.
THE MEANING
These words settle in your hearing now: the Son of Man is handed into human hands. “Son of man” and “men” echo the same human designation, joining the one who is delivered to the people who hold him. What enters your ears names the vulnerability he enters.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The Son of Man is not beyond human vulnerability: he is handed into human hands.
THE ROOT
παραδίδοσθαι
paradidosthai
GROWS FROM
δίδωμι (didōmi, to give) + παρά (para, over or across)
The verb’s seed is δίδωμι (didōmi, to give); joined with παρά (para, over or across), it carries the sense of handing someone over.
“delivered” in this verse is paradidosthai. The verb carries a giving-over into another’s power; “hands” makes that custody concrete. The same “into” that places the words in your ears names where the Son of Man is handed.
ALSO GROWS
paradidōmi: Hand over, deliver, or betray.
παραδίδωμι
This is the verb behind “delivered,” giving the line the force of being handed into another’s custody.
paradosis: Tradition; something handed down.
παράδοσις
The related word carries the image of something passed from one person to another, echoing the movement of handing over.
θῆσθε
thēsthe
GROWS FROM
τίθημι
tithēmi
The verb’s basic sense is to put, set, or place something.
The Greek verb gives “sink down” the concrete image of setting these words in the ears. The words take their place in the hearer, while the same “into” points to the Son of Man entering human hands.
ALSO GROWS
thesis: A placing or position.
θέσις
It preserves the root’s image of something being set in a particular place, as these words are set in the ears.
apothesis: A putting away or laying aside.
ἀπόθεσις
This related form shows the same root’s concrete sense of placing something aside, sharpening the contrast with words given a place in the hearing.
THE PATTERN
Words placed in hearing before their hour give the hearer a way to recognize the event when it arrives.
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men:But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.THE THREAD
And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!The verb παραδίδωμι (paradidōmi, to hand over or deliver), translated “delivered” here and “betrayed” there, carries the same handover through both verses. Luke 22:22 brings a human agent into view, making the Son of Man’s passage into human hands personal.
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