What Does Mark 1:33 Mean in the King James?
And all the city was gathered together at the door.
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 doorway turns one household’s encounter with healing into a gathering point for the whole city.
THE MEANING
You stand at a threshold where what happens in one home becomes visible to a whole community. Many lives gather around the same doorway, drawn toward a shared encounter.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that healing in one household concerns only that household gives way as the whole city gathers at its door.
THE ROOT
ἐπισυνηγμένη
episynēgmenē
GROWS FROM
συνάγω
synagō
To bring or lead together; to gather.
“gathered together” in this verse is episynēgmenē. The Greek carries the action of bringing people together, beyond the English picture of a crowd simply being present. The whole city converges at one doorway, making the threshold a shared point of encounter.
ALSO GROWS
synagōgē: Gathering, assembly
συναγωγή
The same root names an assembly: the gathered people themselves, not only the act of gathering.
episynagōgē: Gathering together
ἐπισυναγωγή
This related form appears in 2 Thessalonians 2:1, where people are gathered together; it echoes the movement from scattered lives toward one gathering.
THE PATTERN
Lives dispersed by distance or need converge around a shared point of encounter.
And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them.There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.THE THREAD
And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.“Gather together” here translates a form of συνάγω (synagō), “to bring together,” the same root beneath Mark’s word. Mark shows a city converging at one door; John uses the same gathering language for scattered people brought into one.
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