What Does Mark 11:27 Mean in the King James?

And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders,

Mark 11:27 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

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THE KEY

The temple and the chief priests share the Greek root of the sacred, so the authorities approach Jesus from within the very order he is walking through.

THE MEANING

You see Jesus moving through the temple as its recognized authorities come to him. The temple and the chief priests belong to the same Greek word-family, placing this encounter within the sacred order that names both the place and their office.

THE ROOT

ἱερόν

hieron

GROWS FROM

⁨ἱερ-⁩ (hier-), from ⁨ἱερός⁩ (hieros)

Sacred; belonging to sacred space.

The word for temple (hieron) and the title for chief priest (archiereus) share the hier- family: the sacred place and its officiants are named from the same seed. English presents them as separate terms, while Greek makes their shared sacred order audible as the authorities approach Jesus moving through it.

ALSO GROWS

hiereus: Priest

ἱερεύς

The same word-family names the person who serves in the sacred precinct.

archiereus: Chief priest

ἀρχιερεύς

The chief priests approaching Jesus bear the hier- root in their title, linking their office directly to the temple’s sacred word-family.

THE PATTERN

The sacred is disclosed as a place where divine presence moves among people, rather than as a static enclosure.

And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

Genesis 3:8 · KJVGod’s presence is heard walking within the garden, making sacred encounter something that moves through a place.

And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

Leviticus 26:12 · KJVGod’s presence is expressed as walking among people, not remaining distant from them.

Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;

Revelation 2:1 · KJVThe one who walks among the lampstands is present within the sacred community.

THE THREAD

And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.

John 10:23 · KJV

John uses the same Greek walking verb, peripateō, and the same word for temple, hieron: Jesus is again moving within the sacred precinct. Their repeated pairing lets this verse open Mark’s scene as presence in motion within sacred space.

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