What Does Mark 11:6 Mean in the King James?
And they said unto them even as Jesus had commanded: and they let them go.
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
The command reaches its purpose when what is held is released.
THE MEANING
The disciples speak exactly as instructed, and the people let them go with the colt. The verse holds a living movement: a purpose becomes possible when another person opens what they hold and releases it.
THE ROOT
ἀφῆκαν
aphēkan
GROWS FROM
ἀφίημι
aphiēmi
Send away, release, let go, permit to depart.
The verb joins ἀπό (apo, away or from) with ἵημι (hiēmi, send or let go): release sends what is held onward. This word family also carries the sense of forgiveness, so release can mean both letting someone depart and loosening what is held against someone.
ALSO GROWS
aphesis: Release, remission, forgiveness.
ἄφεσις
The same family describes forgiveness as release, extending the verse’s letting-go beyond physical departure.
aphienai: To release, let go, or leave.
ἀφιέναι
This verb form makes the permission in the verse a direct act of letting someone go.
THE PATTERN
In scripture, release moves from permission to depart to deliverance and the letting go of debts.
And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.THE THREAD
And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.The word translated “forgive” belongs to the same Greek verb family as “let them go” in Mark 11:6. The root reveals release as one movement: letting people depart and letting go of what is held against them.
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