What Does Mark 1:34 Mean in the King James?
And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew 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
The verse separates recognition from authority: even a voice that knows Jesus is not thereby permitted to speak.
THE MEANING
You encounter a Jesus whose care reaches many kinds of sickness and whose authority drives out devils. Knowing him does not grant a voice permission to speak; even recognition remains under his authority.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A voice does not become authorized simply because it recognizes Jesus correctly.
THE ROOT
θεραπεύω
therapeuō
GROWS FROM
θεραπευ-
therapeu-
To attend to, care for, or heal.
The verb carries both attending and healing, so “healed” holds the texture of care as well as a changed condition. The verse describes restoration as care directed toward people suffering in many ways.
ALSO GROWS
therapeia: Care, attendance, or healing.
θεραπεία
This related word keeps care and healing within the same word family.
therapeutēs: An attendant or healer.
θεραπευτής
The related noun names one who attends to another, echoing the care within the healing verb.
ἐκβάλλω
ekballō
GROWS FROM
βάλλω (ballō) + ἐκ- (ek-, out)
To throw; with ἐκ-, to throw out or drive out.
“cast out” in this verse is ekballō. The Greek compound gives expulsion a clear direction: something is driven out. Set beside the verb for healing, it shows restoration as both attentive care and the removal of what is expelled.
ALSO GROWS
ballō: To throw or cast.
βάλλω
This base verb supplies the forceful action within “cast out.”
ekbolē: A casting out, ejection, or discharge.
ἐκβολή
This related noun makes the outward movement of expulsion explicit.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance joins care for the suffering with authority over what harms and the voices attached to it.
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.THE THREAD
When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:Matthew uses the same Greek verbs Mark uses for “cast out” (ἐκβάλλω, ekballō, drive out) and “healed” (θεραπεύω, therapeuō, attend to or heal). Their pairing shows the two movements together; Mark also makes Jesus’ authority over the spirits’ speech explicit.
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