What Does Mark 2:12 Mean in the King James?
And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.
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 bed that carried the man becomes the thing he carries, making his rising visible to everyone.
THE MEANING
You see a body move from being carried to carrying: the man stands, lifts his bed, and walks out where everyone can see. What once held his helplessness is now under his hand. The sight turns the crowd’s attention toward God’s weight.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A limitation that carries you must always determine what you can carry. Here, the bed associated with helplessness is in the man’s hands.
THE ROOT
ἠγέρθη
ēgerthē
GROWS FROM
ἐγείρω
egeirō
To wake, rouse, or raise.
“arose” in this verse is ēgerthē. The form here is passive: he is raised. Then the man himself takes up what bore him and walks out. The sequence holds receiving and acting together: rising is given, and the formerly helpless body moves.
ALSO GROWS
egeirō: To raise or wake.
ἐγείρω
This is the verb’s base form, joining the man’s rising with the broader sense of being roused.
egersis: A raising; resurrection.
ἔγερσις
The same root can name a raising from death, giving this ordinary act of standing a deeper resonance.
ἄρας
aras
GROWS FROM
αἴρω
airō
To lift, take up, carry, or remove.
“took” in this verse is aras. This word family spans lifting and taking away. The bed no longer bears the man; he bears it as he goes out.
ALSO GROWS
arsis: A lifting or taking up.
ἄρσις
This noun makes the physical act of lifting explicit, echoing the man’s new relation to his bed.
apairō: To depart, lift off, or take away.
ἀπαίρω
The family’s sense of departure echoes the man going forth with the bed in his hands.
ἐδόξασαν
edoxasan
GROWS FROM
δοξάζω
doxazō
To honor, praise, or give glory.
“glorified” in this verse is edoxasan. This word shares a family with δόξα, understood as weight. The crowd’s amazement becomes recognition of God’s weight, as their attention moves from the spectacle to the one they glorify.
ALSO GROWS
doxa: Honor, reputation, glory; weight.
δόξα
This related noun links the crowd’s response to the weight they recognize in God.
doxazō: To honor or glorify.
δοξάζω
The verb names the crowd’s response as recognition directed toward God.
THE PATTERN
When a body is raised into movement, what once marked its helplessness can become something it carries.
Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.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.THE THREAD
Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.John uses the same Greek verb families for rise and take up that appear in Mark. There, the command is spoken; here, the man carries it out before everyone.
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