What Does Mark 14:11 Mean in the King James?
And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
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 verse uses one family of words for two transfers: the money given to Judas and Jesus handed over by Judas.
THE MEANING
You see betrayal take shape as a transaction: money is promised, and Judas searches for the right moment to hand Jesus over. The Greek carries the same root of giving in the payment and the handover, making the person transferred visible beneath the sum.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that betrayal is only a sudden break dissolves here: it can be priced and timed before the handover happens.
THE ROOT
παραδίδωμι
paradidōmi
GROWS FROM
δο-/δω- (do-/dō-)
Give; this Greek verb base carries the sense of giving or transferring.
The Greek line says they promise ἀργύριον δοῦναι (argyrion dounai, to give silver), while Judas seeks a way to παραδῷ (paradō, hand him over). English gives “give” and “betray” different faces, but both carry the root of giving; the difference is what, and whom, the giving transfers.
ALSO GROWS
didōmi: Give.
δίδωμι
The promised money is to be given with δοῦναι (dounai, to give), a form of this verb.
metadidōmi: Share, impart.
μεταδίδωμι
This branch shows the same giving root in an act of sharing, while παραδίδωμι (paradidōmi, hand over) makes the transfer a betrayal.
εὐκαίρως
eukairōs
GROWS FROM
καιρ-
kair-
A fitting or opportune time.
“conveniently” in this verse is eukairōs. εὐκαίρως (eukairōs, at an opportune time) makes the search about timing: Judas looks for an opening where the handover can happen. The exchange is calculated down to its moment.
ALSO GROWS
kairos: A fitting time, season, or opportunity.
καιρός
This is the time Judas is looking for: a moment suited to the handover.
eukairia: A favorable opportunity.
εὐκαιρία
This related word names the usable opening Judas seeks.
THE PATTERN
Betrayal turns closeness into access, then searches for an opening to harm or hand a person over.
And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.THE THREAD
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.Mark’s παραδίδωμι (paradidōmi, hand over) and Galatians’ παραδόντος (paradontos, having handed over) are forms of the same Greek verb. The shared root brings two transfers into view: Judas hands Jesus over for a price, while Jesus gives himself for another.
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