What Does Mark 14:12 Mean in the King James?
And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
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 meal’s preparation and the Passover’s sacrifice belong together: what is received at the table is joined to what is given.
THE MEANING
The feast takes shape through a real place being made ready, with sacrifice at its center. The verse holds preparation and a life given in the same moment, showing the cost within what is received.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The feast is not a self-made abundance detached from what has been given for it.
THE ROOT
ἔθυον
éthyōn
GROWS FROM
θύ-
Offer in sacrifice; slaughter as a sacrifice.
The Greek verb names the Passover’s killing as sacrifice, connecting the act to the meal being prepared. English “killed” conveys the action, while the Greek word family also brings the offering and its setting into view.
ALSO GROWS
thysía: sacrifice, offering
θυσία
This related word makes explicit the sacrificial dimension carried by the verb in the verse.
thysiastḗrion: altar
θυσιαστήριον
The altar belongs to the same sacrificial word family, showing the act as an offering within a larger setting.
ἑτοιμάσωμεν
hetoimásōmen
GROWS FROM
ἑτοιμ-
Make ready; bring into a state of readiness.
“prepare” in this verse is hetoimásōmen. The disciples ask where they can make the meal ready, not merely whether it will happen. The word family holds together the act of readiness and the state of being ready, giving preparation a concrete place in the verse.
ALSO GROWS
hetoimasía: readiness, preparation
ἑτοιμασία
This noun names the ready state that the disciples’ action brings about.
hétoimos: ready, prepared
ἕτοιμος
This related adjective describes the condition toward which the preparation moves.
THE PATTERN
Preparation makes provision present as a table where it can be received.
And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.THE THREAD
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:Mark’s ἔθυον (éthyōn, “they sacrificed”) and Paul’s ἐτύθη (etýthē, “was sacrificed”) come from the same Greek root, θύω (thýō), “to offer in sacrifice.” Paul’s words open the meal’s preparation into a larger image: the one given is also the Passover around which the feast gathers.
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