What Does Mark 2:26 Mean in the King James?
How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?
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 bread set before God becomes bread shared with the hungry, so holiness here touches need instead of floating above it.
THE MEANING
The verse holds an exception in full view: bread reserved for priests is received and shared with people who are hungry. The sacred boundary and the need remain in the same frame; the question leaves their tension alive.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse unsettles the belief that a sacred boundary makes human need irrelevant: it names the restriction and also names bread given to those with David.
THE ROOT
ἄρτους τῆς προθέσεως
artous tēs protheseōs
GROWS FROM
τίθημι
tithēmi
To put, place, or set.
“shewbread” in this verse is artous tēs protheseōs. The Greek names the bread by its placement: it is bread of presentation, set before God. That makes the sharing an exposed tension in the verse, what is set apart before God is also food received by people in need.
ALSO GROWS
protithēmi: To set before; to set forth.
προτίθημι
This related word carries the same act of placing something before another, echoing the bread’s presentation.
thesis: A placing; a position.
θέσις
Presentation is a placing: the bread is marked by where it is set and before whom.
THE PATTERN
Sacred provision is placed before God and meets human life as food.
And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:THE THREAD
And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.This verse names the bread in Mark as bread continually set before God. That makes its sharing more than a meal: the verse places consecration and human need side by side.
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