What Does Mark 10:51 Mean in the King James?
And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight.
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 restoring sight, Jesus gives the blind man room to name the exact thing he wants restored.
THE MEANING
The question meets you without scripting your answer. The request names sight itself: a return to seeing. The verse makes room for a need to be spoken as specifically as it is felt.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a need must be inferred for you: the question gives it a voice and makes the request specific.
THE ROOT
ἀναβλέψω
anablepsō
GROWS FROM
βλεπ-
blep-
see, look
“Receive my sight” is one Greek verb, ἀναβλέψω (anablepsō, see again or recover sight), formed with ἀνά (ana, up or again) and βλέπω (blepō, see or look). Its seed βλεπ- (blep-, see or look) also grows into ἐμβλέπω (emblepō, look at or gaze upon): the same family speaks of sight returned and sight directed.
ALSO GROWS
blepō: see, look
βλέπω
This is the simple verb within ἀναβλέψω; the phrase translated “receive my sight” describes a return to seeing.
emblepō: look at, gaze upon
ἐμβλέπω
This compound keeps the same βλεπ- seed but directs seeing toward someone, showing how the family can describe both restored vision and focused looking.
THE PATTERN
Sight is restored when the barrier to seeing is removed, making what was unseen visible.
And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.THE THREAD
After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.Mark 8:25 uses the same βλεπ- (blep-, see or look) family in διέβλεψεν (dieblepsen, saw clearly) and ἐνέβλεπεν (eneblepen, was seeing or looking at). There, sight returns in stages and becomes clear; here, ἀναβλέψω names the request for sight itself.
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