What Does Mark 14:19 Mean in the King James?
And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I?
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 question turns betrayal from a mystery about someone else into a possibility each person faces in himself.
THE MEANING
Grief meets uncertainty: the question is not only who will betray, but whether the rupture is possible in me. The repeated “Is it I?” lets each person stand alone in that question, even within the group.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief undone is that betrayal is always something to identify in someone else; here each person turns the question toward himself.
THE ROOT
λυπεῖσθαι
lypeisthai
GROWS FROM
λυπ-
to grieve or cause pain
“sorrowful” in this verse is lypeisthai. This word family holds grief and pain together: the sorrow presses into a question about the self rather than remaining a detached feeling. The verse lets the inward ache surface as each person asks whether the betrayal could be his.
ALSO GROWS
lypē: grief, sorrow
λύπη
The related noun appears in 2 Corinthians 7:10, linking this grief to another passage that examines where sorrow leads.
lypeō: to grieve, distress, or cause sorrow
λυπέω
The verb form names the experience of being grieved that leads into the disciples’ repeated question.
lypēros: painful, grievous
λυπηρός
This related adjective preserves the family’s sense of pain, showing the weight carried in their sorrow.
THE PATTERN
When danger can reach the self, the question turns inward and calls for honest self-examination.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.THE THREAD
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.Mark uses a verb from the λυπ- word family for being grieved; this verse uses its related noun, λύπη, for sorrow. In Mark, grief becomes a personal question; here, the same word family connects sorrow with differing outcomes.
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