What Does Mark 14:24 Mean in the King James?
And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
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 word rendered “shed” pictures blood being poured out, so the covenant is bound to life given outward for many.
THE MEANING
This covenant reaches you as life poured out, not as an abstract promise. Its scope is “for many,” placing you within a bond carried by costly, embodied giving. The verse makes that giving present and tangible.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that covenant is only a spoken agreement: here the bond is carried in poured-out life.
THE ROOT
διαθήκης
diathēkēs
GROWS FROM
τίθημι
tithēmi
“Set” or “place”; through διατίθημι (diatithēmi), the word family carries the sense of arranging or establishing.
The Greek word rendered “testament” is διαθήκη (diathēkē), also meaning “covenant.” Its family ties the bond to something arranged and established, giving “new covenant” more weight than a detached promise.
ALSO GROWS
diatithēmi: Arrange, establish, make a covenant
διατίθημι
This verb belongs to the same word family and shows covenant as an established bond.
diathesis: Arrangement, disposition
διάθεσις
The related word carries the sense of something set in order, echoing the covenant’s established form.
ἐκχυννόμενον
ekchynnomenon
GROWS FROM
χέω
cheō
Pour; the compound form means “pour out.”
“shed” in this verse is ekchynnomenon. The Greek participle pictures the blood as being poured out, keeping the image physical and in motion. Joined to “for many,” the verb gives the covenant an outward reach: life poured forth on behalf of others.
ALSO GROWS
ekcheō: Pour out
ἐκχέω
This compound carries the same pouring-out image present in Mark’s word for “shed.”
katacheō: Pour down, pour over
καταχέω
This related compound preserves the physical image of liquid flowing over a surface.
THE PATTERN
Scripture presents blood as life, making covenant and release tangible through life poured out.
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.THE THREAD
Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.“Testament” here is the same Greek word, διαθήκη (diathēkē), meaning “covenant,” found in Mark. Hebrews ties that covenant word to blood at its dedication, opening Mark’s image of a bond established through poured-out life.
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