What Does Mark 10:50 Mean in the King James?
And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.
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
Before his sight returns, Bartimaeus rises, and the Greek word for his rising belongs to the same word-family as resurrection.
THE MEANING
Bartimaeus releases his garment, rises, and comes to Jesus while his need remains. His rising shares a Greek word-family with resurrection, so this ordinary act of standing carries the language of life rising again.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that healing must come before movement toward Jesus: Bartimaeus comes while he is still blind.
THE ROOT
ἀναστάς
anastas
GROWS FROM
ἵστημι
histēmi
stand, set in place
“rose” in this verse is anastas. The verb for Bartimaeus rising belongs to the same word-family as ἀνάστασις (anastasis, resurrection). English presents this as a simple change of posture, while the Greek carries a word-family that also names rising from death.
ALSO GROWS
anistēmi: rise, stand up
ἀνίστημι
This is the verb behind Bartimaeus’s rising and shows the action as standing up into movement.
anastasis: resurrection, rising again
ἀνάστασις
This noun from the same word-family lets Bartimaeus’s small rising echo the larger language of resurrection.
ἀποβαλών
apobalōn
GROWS FROM
βάλλω
ballō
throw, cast
“casting away” in this verse is apobalōn. The word combines ἀπό (apo, away) with βάλλω (ballō, throw): Bartimaeus throws his garment away before he rises and comes. The sequence makes release part of his movement toward Jesus.
ALSO GROWS
apoballō: throw away, cast off
ἀποβάλλω
This is the verb whose participle describes Bartimaeus throwing off his garment.
ekballō: cast out, drive out
ἐκβάλλω
This related compound keeps the image of something being thrown from its place, clarifying the force of the action.
THE PATTERN
A new direction opens as what is held is laid aside and the body moves forward.
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,THE THREAD
And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.The phrase “rise again” uses the same Greek word-family as Bartimaeus’s “rose”: ἀνίστημι (anistēmi, rise or stand up). The word that describes Bartimaeus getting to his feet also carries the language of rising after death.
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