What Does Mark 13:22 Mean in the King James?
For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
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
A sign can make wandering feel like revelation.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks to the moment when a dramatic sign makes a voice feel reliable. A display can draw you off course even when the claim sounds sacred, and even the chosen are named as targets. The measure is where the voice leads, not how astonishing its signs appear.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that an extraordinary sign proves the voice behind it is trustworthy.
THE ROOT
ἀποπλανᾶν
apoplanan
GROWS FROM
πλαν-
To wander, or to cause someone to wander from the way.
The word translated “seduce” carries the sense of leading someone off course. The warning is about the direction a sign takes you: a striking display can accompany a voice that draws you away from the way.
ALSO GROWS
planē: Wandering; error or deception.
πλάνη
This branch names the state of being led off course, the outcome Mark warns the signs may produce.
planētēs: Wanderer; wandering star.
πλανήτης
The shared root carries the image of movement without a fixed course, echoing the verse’s warning about where a voice leads.
THE PATTERN
A sign may be striking and still lead away from the way.
If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.THE THREAD
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.Mark’s “seduce” and Matthew’s “deceive” use forms of the Greek root πλαν- (plan-), to wander or lead astray. Together they show that the central danger is being carried off course, even by something that appears powerful.
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