What Does Mark 14:35 Mean in the King James?
And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.
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 English gives two motions, but Greek repeats one: he goes forward while asking that the hour go away.
THE MEANING
Your painful hour can be named plainly before God; the desire for it to pass does not have to be edited into calm acceptance. The verse holds both movements together: going forward a little while asking that the hour go away.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that an honest prayer must sound like acceptance: here the prayer plainly asks for the hour to pass.
THE ROOT
προελθὼν
proelthōn
GROWS FROM
ἔρχομαι
To come or go; prefixes specify direction or relation.
“went forward / pass from him” in this verse is proelthōn. Both Greek forms are compounds of ἔρχομαι (erchomai), meaning “to come” or “to go”: προέρχομαι (proerchomai) means “go forward,” while παρέρχομαι (parerchomai) means “pass by.” English makes them sound like separate motions, but the verse repeats the same seed: he goes a little forward while asking whether the hour can go by him.
ALSO GROWS
proerchomai: Go forward, advance.
προέρχομαι
This is the verb behind “went forward,” the first movement in the verse.
parerchomai: Pass by, pass away.
παρέρχομαι
This is the verb behind the prayer that the hour might “pass from him,” echoing the first movement with the same root.
THE PATTERN
Prayer can contain a direct wish for an affliction to pass while the affliction is still present.
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;THE THREAD
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.“Pass away” here uses the same Greek verb, παρέρχομαι (parerchomai), as the hour that Jesus asks to pass from him. The shared root links a painful hour with what is transient, while the verse sets it beside what does not pass away.
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