What Does Mark 11:19 Mean in the King James?
And when even was come, he went out of the city.
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
Evening marks a real boundary in Jesus’ public movement: as the day closes, he leaves the city.
THE MEANING
The verse holds Jesus’ presence in the city together with his departure from it. His movement has a rhythm, and evening is one of its clear thresholds.
THE ROOT
ἐξεπορεύετο
exeporeueto
GROWS FROM
πορεύομαι
poreuomai
to go, proceed, or journey
“went out” in this verse is exeporeueto. This verb belongs to a word family for going along a course and for going out from somewhere. Here the movement is literal: Jesus leaves the city as evening comes; the verb itself does not say why.
ALSO GROWS
poreia: journey, course of travel
πορεία
It shows the movement in “went” as travel along a way, not simply a change of location.
ekporeuomai: go out, proceed forth
ἐκπορεύομαι
The same word family describes things that “come out” in Mark 7:15, where the Greek speaks of what issues from within; English renders the direction according to the scene.
THE PATTERN
Scripture marks the day’s rhythm through changing movement: work reaches evening, and departure comes at the day’s thresholds.
Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.THE THREAD
And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.Mark 11:19 places Jesus’ departure at evening; Mark 1:35 shows him going out before daybreak. Together they frame his movement by the day’s thresholds, while each verse leaves the departure concrete.
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