What Does Mark 14:22 Mean in the King James?
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 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 bread’s breaking is not the opposite of its gift; it is how the body is shared.
THE MEANING
You are addressed in the moment of receiving: “Take, eat.” The body is named in bread that is blessed, broken, and given into the hands of others. The verse holds blessing and brokenness together within the act of giving.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
That what is sacred must remain whole and untouched. Here the bread is blessed as it is broken and given.
THE ROOT
ἔκλασεν
eklasen
GROWS FROM
κλάω
klaō
To break, including breaking bread.
“brake” in this verse is eklasen. The Greek verb makes the bread’s breaking a distinct action before it is given. Its word family also names the fragments that result, so the movement runs from one broken bread toward portions received by many.
ALSO GROWS
klasis: Breaking; the act of breaking.
κλάσις
The same word family names the breaking itself, the action at the center of this meal.
klasma: A fragment or broken piece.
κλάσμα
With the bread given to several people, the word for a fragment echoes how the gift reaches many hands.
ἔδωκεν
edōken
GROWS FROM
δίδωμι
didōmi
To give or grant.
“gave” in this verse is edōken. The giving leads directly into “Take, eat”: what is offered becomes something received. The Greek word family names both the act of giving and what is given, placing the body here within a movement of gift.
ALSO GROWS
dosis: A giving or gift.
δόσις
The related noun holds the act and its result together, echoing the passage’s movement from giving to receiving.
dōrea: A gift, freely given.
δωρεά
This related word brings out the gift-like character of what is placed into the hands of others.
εὐλόγησεν
eulogēsen
GROWS FROM
εὐλογέω
eulogeō
To bless or praise; literally, to speak well.
“blessed” in this verse is eulogēsen. The Greek verb gives blessing a spoken shape before the bread is broken and passed on. The meal’s movement begins with blessing, then unfolds through breaking and giving.
ALSO GROWS
eulogia: Blessing or praise.
εὐλογία
This related noun carries the same language of blessing into the act named in the verse.
eulogētos: Blessed or worthy of praise.
εὐλογητός
This related form shows the same word family naming one who is praised or blessed.
THE PATTERN
Life-sustaining bread arrives as a gift to be received and shared.
And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?THE THREAD
And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.This verse repeats the same Greek verb for breaking bread, κλάω (klaō, “to break”), and names the body as given “for you.” That phrase makes the direction of the gift explicit: the broken bread reaches the one who receives it.
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