What Does Mark 14:33 Mean in the King James?
And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
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
Before his distress fills the scene, Jesus has already drawn three companions alongside him.
THE MEANING
Jesus brings Peter, James, and John alongside him, then becomes intensely alarmed and deeply distressed. His anguish is real in their presence; their closeness does not erase its weight.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that deep distress is proof of weakness: the verse names Jesus’ anguish without diminishing him.
THE ROOT
παραλαμβάνει
paralambanei
GROWS FROM
λαμβ-
lamb-
To take or receive; παρά (para) adds the sense of alongside.
“taketh with him” in this verse is paralambanei. The English phrase can sound like simple travel, but παραλαμβάνει (paralambanei) means to take someone along or receive them alongside. Jesus brings his companions near before his distress takes hold in the scene.
ALSO GROWS
lambanō: Take, receive.
λαμβάνω
The base word holds taking and receiving in one family, giving the act more depth than merely moving people from place to place.
paralambanō: Take along, receive alongside.
παραλαμβάνω
This is the verb in the verse: Peter, James, and John are brought alongside Jesus.
epilambanomai: Take hold of, seize.
ἐπιλαμβάνομαι
This related compound carries the family’s sense of grasping and nearness.
ἐκθαμβεῖσθαι
ekthambeisthai
GROWS FROM
θαμβ-
thamb-
Astonishment; being struck with amazement.
“sore amazed” in this verse is ekthambeisthai. The compound ἐκθαμβεῖσθαι (ekthambeisthai) intensifies the family sense of θάμβος (thambos, astonishment) into alarmed overwhelm. English “amazed” can sound admiring, while this scene holds shock and distress.
ALSO GROWS
thambos: Amazement, astonishment.
θάμβος
The noun names the root experience that the verse’s verb intensifies.
thambeō: Be astonished, be struck with amazement.
θαμβέω
This related verb shows the family describing a reaction that overtakes a person.
ekthambeomai: Be greatly astonished or alarmed.
ἐκθαμβέομαι
This compound form carries the intensified shock present in the verse.
THE PATTERN
Anguish can be named in full while nearness and companionship remain present.
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.THE THREAD
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.Matthew uses the same Greek verb, ἀδημονεῖν (adēmonīn, to be deeply distressed), for “very heavy” and likewise places Peter and the sons of Zebedee beside Jesus. The repeated word joins their nearness to anguish named plainly.
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