What Does Mark 14:15 Mean in the King James?
And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us.
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 room is already ready, yet the same word-family makes readiness something the disciples still enact.
THE MEANING
You meet a place prepared before your arrival, and your part in making it ready still matters. The verse holds provision and participation together: what is ready can still be prepared as a welcome for others.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A prepared place means there is nothing left for me to contribute.
THE ROOT
ἕτοιμον
hetoimon
GROWS FROM
ἑτοιμ-
hetoim-
ready; prepared
“prepared / make ready” in this verse is hetoimon. The Greek uses one word-family first for the room’s state and then for the disciples’ work. Readiness is already present, yet it remains active in the act of preparing a welcome.
ALSO GROWS
hetoimos: ready; prepared
ἕτοιμος
This adjective describes the room as already ready.
hetoimazō: to prepare; to make ready
ἑτοιμάζω
This verb is the command to the disciples, showing that prior readiness does not erase their part.
THE PATTERN
Preparation turns an anticipated arrival into a way or place made ready to receive.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.THE THREAD
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.John uses the same Greek word-family for preparing a place that Mark uses for the ready room and the disciples’ act of preparation. Together, the verses hold out a place prepared for you while keeping preparation alive as an act of welcome.
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