What Does Mark 14:18 Mean in the King James?
And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you which eateth with me shall betray me.
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
Betrayal here is a handing over from within the shared meal, so intimacy and rupture occupy the same table.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks into the reader’s present: intimacy does not make betrayal impossible, and a person at the shared table can still hand Jesus over. Jesus names the rupture within the meal, while it remains hidden among those gathered.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that betrayal can only come from outside the circle, or that shared intimacy guarantees loyalty.
THE ROOT
παραδώσει
paradōsei
GROWS FROM
δίδωμι
Give, grant, or place into another’s hands.
“betray” in this verse is paradōsei. Παραδίδωμι names a transfer: Jesus is handed over by someone presently sharing his meal. Its root family also carries giving and passing something onward, revealing how the same movement of transfer can become either sharing or betrayal.
ALSO GROWS
paradidōmi: Hand over, deliver, or entrust.
παραδίδωμι
This compound of δίδωμι is the verb behind “betray”; the word names what happens to Jesus at the table as an act of transfer.
paradosis: Handing down, transmission, tradition.
παράδοσις
Formed from the same παραδίδωμι family, it shows that what is handed onward may be a teaching or a person; here the transfer is betrayal.
metadidōmi: Share or impart.
μεταδίδωμι
This compound shares the δίδωμι root and makes the contrast vivid: the meal is shared, while Jesus is handed over.
THE PATTERN
A shared table can become the place where hidden disloyalty is exposed.
Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table.THE THREAD
Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.The same Greek verb, παραδίδωμι, underlies “betray” here and “delivered” there. Mark names a companion’s act at the table; Romans uses the word for Jesus being handed over because of human offenses.
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