What Does Luke 9:6 Mean in the King James?
And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where.
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
Healing is not an afterthought to the good news; it is the good news arriving as care.
THE MEANING
The good news reaches the places where life needs tending. Wherever it arrives, healing makes the message present and tangible.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that good news can remain only words; here it arrives as care that makes healing tangible.
THE ROOT
θεραπεύοντες
therapeuontes
GROWS FROM
θεραπευ-
therapeu-
To attend to, serve, or care for; in use, to heal.
The Greek word for healing carries the sense of attending to someone, so healing is expressed as care in action. The word family holds treatment and healing together, revealing restoration as something that happens through attentive tending.
ALSO GROWS
therapeia: Care, treatment, healing
θεραπεία
This noun keeps healing within the language of attentive care, illuminating the kind of action the verse describes.
therapeutēs: An attendant; one who treats or heals
θεραπευτής
This person-word describes someone through the act of attending, reinforcing that healing here is care made active.
THE PATTERN
Good news becomes visible through the restoration it brings.
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;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 heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.Luke 10:9 uses the same Greek verb for healing, keeping care and proclamation joined: heal the sick, then announce God’s nearness. It opens Luke 9:6 further by showing that nearness through both spoken words and healing.
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