What Does Mark 1:21 Mean in the King James?

And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.

Mark 1:21 · KJV

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 place of teaching is itself named by the act that brings people together.

THE MEANING

You meet instruction in the midst of a gathered people. The Greek name “synagogue” carries the action of gathering within it, so people coming together belongs to the teaching moment.

THE ROOT

συναγωγή

synagōgē

GROWS FROM

συνάγω

synagō

to gather, bring together

Beneath “synagogue” is ⁨συναγωγή⁩ (synagōgē, “gathering, assembly”): the name carries people coming together within it. The verse places teaching inside that gathering, keeping the people’s assembly part of the teaching moment.

ALSO GROWS

synagō: to gather, bring together

συνάγω

This verb names the gathering action carried within the assembly word.

episynagō: to gather together

ἐπισυνάγω

Mark 13:27 uses this same verb family for people gathered from every direction, opening the assembly word into an action that reaches across distance.

THE PATTERN

Teaching and hearing take shape within a people gathered together.

Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

Deuteronomy 31:12 · KJVA gathered people hears and learns together; instruction takes place within their assembling.

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

Luke 4:16 · KJVThe sabbath assembly is a place of shared reading, with Jesus standing among the people to read.

And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.

Acts 13:15 · KJVReading in the assembly opens into a spoken word addressed to the gathered people.

THE THREAD

And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.

Mark 13:27 · KJV

The verb ⁨ἐπισυνάγω⁩ (episynagō, “gather together”) grows from the same word-family as ⁨συναγωγή⁩ (synagōgē, “gathering, assembly”). Mark moves from people gathered in a meeting place to people gathered from every direction.

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