What Does Mark 2:13 Mean in the King James?
And he went forth again by the sea side; and all the multitude resorted unto him, and he taught them.
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 same Greek verb-root carries Jesus outward and the crowd toward him, so teaching begins where their movements meet.
THE MEANING
Jesus goes out beside the sea, and the crowd keeps coming toward him; teaching meets them in that shared movement. The scene speaks now of instruction taking place where people draw near, in the open flow of life.
THE ROOT
ἐξῆλθεν
exēlthen
GROWS FROM
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
to come or go; the prefix supplies the direction, as in going out or going in
“went forth” in this verse is exēlthen. The Greek ἐξῆλθεν (exēlthen, “went out”) shares the verb-root ἔρχομαι (erchomai, “come or go”) with ἤρχετο (ērcheto, “was coming”), the crowd’s movement toward Jesus. English gives them different verbs, while Greek lets the verse echo with one movement: he goes out, and they come toward him.
ALSO GROWS
erchomai: to come or go
ἔρχομαι
This is the shared verb-root beneath Jesus’ going out and the crowd’s coming toward him.
exerchomai: to go out or come forth
ἐξέρχομαι
This compound names Jesus’ outward movement beside the sea.
eiserchomai: to go in or enter
εἰσέρχομαι
The same verb-root can describe movement inward; here its outward form carries the teaching into the open.
THE PATTERN
The word is spoken where people come near enough to hear, and gathering makes instruction shared.
Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,THE THREAD
And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth.The words translated “went forth” here and “came I forth” there come from ἐξέρχομαι (exerchomai, “go out”). Mark 1:38 connects that outward movement with carrying the message; Mark 2:13 shows people coming toward Jesus as he teaches beside the sea.
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