What Does Mark 13:27 Mean in the King James?
And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
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 same Greek word marks earth’s and heaven’s furthest edge, placing every boundary inside the reach of the gathering.
THE MEANING
The verse places no scattering beyond the reach of the gathering it describes. Messengers go out across every direction, and the chosen are brought together from the furthest edge of earth to the furthest edge of heaven. Its horizon holds even the most distant places within one gathering.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Being scattered beyond sight means being beyond the reach of the gathering.
THE ROOT
ἐπισυνάξει
episynaxei
GROWS FROM
ἄγω
agō
to lead or bring; with συν- (syn-, together), it forms a word for gathering together
“gather together” in this verse is episynaxei. The verb carries people at the farthest boundaries into one gathering. Its underlying bring-and-lead sense makes the gathering a movement toward togetherness, with every named edge inside that movement.
ALSO GROWS
synagōgē: an assembly or gathering
συναγωγή
The same word family names the gathered assembly, showing the people arriving together as well as the act that brings them.
agōgē: leading or guidance
ἀγωγή
It preserves the root’s movement of leading, illuminating the gathering as people being brought toward one place.
ἀγγέλους
angelous
GROWS FROM
ἀγγελ-
angel-
message or announcement; an angelos is a messenger who carries one
“angels” in this verse is angelous. Here the word carries its sense of a messenger sent with a commission. Beside the verb send, it shows the gathering beginning with a dispatch.
ALSO GROWS
angelos: a messenger or bearer of an announcement
ἄγγελος
This is the singular form of the word translated angels here, and it makes their sending central to the scene.
angelia: a message or report
ἀγγελία
It shows the announcement carried by a messenger belongs to the same word family.
euangelion: good news or a good announcement
εὐαγγέλιον
The same message-family also gives the word for good news, linking the act of sending with what a messenger carries.
ἄκρου
akrou
GROWS FROM
ἀκρ-
akr-
edge, tip, or extremity
“uttermost part” in this verse is akrou. The same Greek noun appears at both ends: edge of earth, edge of heaven. The sentence stretches the gathering across matching boundaries, giving it the full span of the horizon it names.
ALSO GROWS
akropolis: a city or stronghold on a height
ἀκρόπολις
Its first element preserves the sense of a highest point, one kind of extremity.
akrōtērion: a projecting point of land
ἀκρωτήριον
It carries the root’s image of a projecting tip or edge, echoing the boundary named at both ends of the verse.
THE PATTERN
The gathering reaches across the full range of scattering and brings the dispersed into one.
If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.THE THREAD
And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.Mark and John use the same Greek gather-family, built on the sense of bringing together. Mark emphasizes how far the gathering reaches; John names its result as scattered people gathered into one.
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