What Does Mark 2:11 Mean in the King James?
I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.
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 mat that once carried you becomes something you carry on the way home.
THE MEANING
The word reaches you as a movement from being carried to carrying: you rise, lift what held you, and go home. Restoration here is concrete; it does not end at standing but returns you to your own place.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that what once carried you must keep you in place, or that the bed of your weakness must define your direction.
THE ROOT
ἔγειρε
egeire
GROWS FROM
ἐγείρω
egeirō
To raise or awaken.
“Arise” in this verse is egeire. This verb can describe waking as well as rising, so the command brings a person back into active life. The next movement is bodily and concrete: rise, then carry the mat that had carried you.
ALSO GROWS
egertheis: Having been raised or awakened.
ἐγερθείς
It shows the same root describing a person brought into a new standing.
egersis: A raising; resurrection.
ἔγερσις
The root can name not only standing up, but the larger passage from being down to being raised.
ἆρον
aron
GROWS FROM
αἴρω
airō
To lift, take up, or carry away.
“take up” in this verse is aron. The command uses a verb that can mean lifting or carrying away. The object that marked the man’s dependence is now in his hands as he moves.
ALSO GROWS
epairō: To lift up or raise.
ἐπαίρω
This compound preserves the lifting sense in the command to take up the mat.
apairō: To lift off or depart.
ἀπαίρω
The same root can join taking up with movement away.
ὕπαγε
hypage
GROWS FROM
ἄγω
agō
To lead, bring, or go.
The form translated go is ὕπαγε (hypage, “go”), from ὑπάγω (hypagō, “go”), built on ἄγω (agō, “lead or go”). Its root joins movement with direction: the command ends not at rising, but in a return to the house.
ALSO GROWS
agōgē: Conduct or way of life.
ἀγωγή
The root can describe a course of movement extended into the shape of a life.
apagō: To lead away or take away.
ἀπάγω
The same root appears when movement is directed away from a place.
THE PATTERN
Restoration becomes visible when movement returns and a person re-enters the life that is theirs.
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.THE THREAD
Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.This verse repeats the same Greek command to go, ὕπαγε (hypage, “go”), toward the same word for house, οἶκον (oikon, “house”). The return home is part of the restoration: the person goes back into familiar life carrying a story of what has happened.
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