What Does Mark 10:27 Mean in the King James?

And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.

Mark 10:27 · 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

“Impossible” and “possible” are the same Greek capacity-word with its negation removed, so human limits do not define what can happen with God.

THE MEANING

What is impossible through human capacity, including deliverance, is possible with God. Human inability is real, but it does not set the boundary of God’s ability.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that what you cannot accomplish is impossible altogether.

THE ROOT

δυνατά

dynatá

GROWS FROM

⁨δύναμαι⁩ (dýnamai) / ⁨δυνα-⁩ (dyna-)

Greek ⁨δύναμαι⁩ (dýnamai) means “to be able”; its stem ⁨δυνα-⁩ (dyna-) carries the sense of capacity or ability.

The verse sets ⁨ἀδύνατον⁩ (adýnaton, “impossible,” “incapable”) against ⁨δυνατά⁩ (dynatá, “possible,” “capable”), two forms from one capacity-root. English preserves the opposition, while the Greek shows that the difference is capacity denied or present, and locates that capacity with God.

ALSO GROWS

adýnatos: incapable; impossible

ἀδύνατος

The privative alpha negates the same capacity-root, showing that “impossible” means capacity is absent.

dýnamis: power; ability

δύναμις

This noun names capacity itself, revealing that “possible” here concerns ability, not mere chance.

dýnamai: to be able

δύναμαι

This verb is the root family’s core sense: what people cannot do is not beyond God’s ability.

THE PATTERN

Human incapacity does not set the limit of what is possible with God.

Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

Genesis 18:14 · KJVWhat seems beyond human capacity remains possible within the LORD’s promise.

Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:

Jeremiah 32:17 · KJVThe world’s creation places what feels impossible within God’s power to act.

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

Luke 1:37 · KJVThe verse states plainly that God’s presence is not bound by human measures of possibility.

THE THREAD

And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.

Luke 18:27 · KJV

Luke’s parallel keeps the shared Greek root visible: ⁨ἀδύνατα⁩ (adýnata, “impossible”) and ⁨δυνατά⁩ (dynatá, “possible”). The contrast is capacity negated or present, with God as the one beyond the human limit.

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