What Does Mark 15:10 Mean in the King James?
For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.
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 chief priests’ act of handing him over is driven by envy, a hidden motive beneath an outward act.
THE MEANING
The verse exposes envy as the motive beneath handing someone over: what another is seen to possess becomes intolerable. That same narrowing is present wherever comparison turns another’s place into a threat, as though removing the person could restore what is missing.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie is that another’s favor diminishes your own place, and that handing them over can restore it.
THE ROOT
παραδεδώκεισαν
paradedōkeisan
GROWS FROM
δίδωμι
didōmi
to give
“delivered” in this verse is paradedōkeisan. The verb παραδίδωμι is built on δίδωμι: to deliver here is to give over, to transfer someone into another’s hands. The root keeps that transfer in view, while the verse names envy as the force moving it.
ALSO GROWS
didōmi: to give
δίδωμι
This is the root verb inside “had delivered,” making the act a giving over.
paradosis: tradition; something handed down
παράδοσις
This related word uses the same giving-over family for what is transmitted, revealing how the same act of transfer can hand someone over or pass something on.
THE PATTERN
Envy turns another’s distinction into a threat, and what follows is disorder or an attempt to remove the person.
And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.THE THREAD
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?“Delivered him up” uses the same Greek verb family as “had delivered him” here. Mark names envy as the motive for the transfer; Romans makes the motive itself central to how the same act is understood.
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