What Does Mark 15:7 Mean in the King James?
And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.
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
Greek lets “insurrection” echo “resurrection”: both belong to a word family about standing, though here the uprising is bound to murder.
THE MEANING
The verse places Barabbas bound among people whose uprising has ended in murder. It keeps the violence concrete: the insurrection is joined to a killing, not left as an abstract cause. Barabbas is named, then located through the company and revolt around him.
THE ROOT
στάσει
stasei
GROWS FROM
στα-
στα- (sta-) carries the sense of standing or rising; στάσις (stasis) can mean a standing, faction, or uprising.
The verse’s στάσει (stasei, “insurrection”) belongs to the στα- (sta-, “stand”) family. That family also gives Greek ἀνάστασις (anastasis, “resurrection”), letting uprising and rising echo one another while the context keeps their acts distinct: here the uprising has murder within it.
ALSO GROWS
stasiastōn: insurrectionists, members of a faction
στασιαστῶν
This is the word the verse uses for Barabbas’s companions; its στα- (sta-, “stand”) stem makes the uprising a collective faction.
anastasis: resurrection, rising
ἀνάστασις
It carries the same στα- (sta-, “stand”) stem, so the Greek word family links “insurrection” and “resurrection” beneath their distinct meanings.
THE PATTERN
When a collective stand turns toward violence, the harm lands on actual people.
O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.THE THREAD
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:John’s ἀνάστασις (anastasis, “resurrection”) carries the same στα- (sta-, “stand”) stem heard in στάσις (stasis, “insurrection”) here. The shared word family lets both verses speak through standing and rising, while their contexts keep violent revolt distinct from rising to life.
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