What Does Mark 13:32 Mean in the King James?
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
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 exact hour lies beyond every named knower, even the Son, and within the Father’s knowledge alone.
THE MEANING
The exact day and hour remain unknown to every human and to the angels in heaven; the verse includes even the Son in that limit and names the Father as the one who knows. The boundary reaches beyond human and angelic knowledge to the Son.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that spiritual rank or heavenly access makes the date knowable: the verse explicitly includes angels and the Son among those who do not know.
THE ROOT
οἶδεν
oiden
GROWS FROM
εἴδω
eidō
To see or perceive, and by extension, to know.
The Greek verb behind “knoweth” belongs to a seeing-and-perceiving word family. English presents knowing as information held, while the Greek also carries the image of perception, and the exact hour remains beyond what any named figure perceives.
ALSO GROWS
eidon: A form of the verb εἴδω, meaning “to see.”
εἶδον
It shows that the verb translated “knoweth” also belongs to the language of seeing.
eidos: A related noun meaning form or appearance; it is rendered “sight” in 2 Corinthians 5:7.
εἶδος
This branch names what can be seen, echoing the verse’s boundary around what can be perceived or known.
THE PATTERN
An appointed time can belong to divine order while its full knowledge remains beyond human reach.
The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.THE THREAD
Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.The next verse repeats οἶδα (oida, see, perceive, know) in “ye know not.” Mark places the unknown hour beside the present work of watching, so the limit on foreknowledge does not erase attention.
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