What Does Mark 11:1 Mean in the King James?
And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples,
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
Jerusalem carries the name of wholeness, and Jesus approaches it by sending two disciples ahead before he enters.
THE MEANING
Your approach to wholeness is already in motion: the next stretch can begin before you arrive. As Jesus nears the city, two learners are sent ahead; the way opens through a sending.
THE ROOT
ἀποστέλλει
apostellei
GROWS FROM
στέλλω (stellō), with ἀπό (apo, away)
To send or dispatch; the compound means to send away or forth.
“sendeth forth” in this verse is apostellei. The word emphasizes movement forward: before Jesus enters the city, he sends two learners ahead. The same word family names both the act of sending and the sent one.
ALSO GROWS
apostolos: A sent one, messenger
ἀπόστολος
The disciples here are sent ahead, embodying the movement named by this word.
apostolē: A sending, commission
ἀποστολή
The verse presents their going as a purposeful sending that carries the next part of the journey forward.
יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
Yerushalayim
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
To be whole, complete.
“Jerusalem” in this verse is Yerushalayim. Yerushalayim carries the sound of shalom, wholeness, with a dual ending: the destination holds twofold wholeness. The verse places the sending on the approach to that named wholeness.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness
שָׁלוֹם
The city’s name carries the quality toward which the journey moves.
shalem: Whole, complete
שָׁלֵם
This branch makes the destination’s name a quality of being, not only a place on a map.
THE PATTERN
The way into what lies ahead opens when someone is sent before the arrival.
The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.THE THREAD
Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.John uses the same sending word when Jesus sends his followers as the Father sent him. The word that moves two disciples ahead toward Jerusalem also describes sending as the shape of their connection with Jesus.
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