What Does Mark 3:6 Mean in the King James?
And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy 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 verb for “destroy” also means “make perish”, the counsel is already a plan to make a living person become lost.
THE MEANING
A healed hand is met with counsel to make its healer perish: separate groups align and move from opposition into a plan of destruction. The verse speaks wherever those threatened by restoration turn their fear into coordinated violence.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that groups with different loyalties cannot unite in harm: shared hostility can make rivals collaborators.
THE ROOT
ἀπολέσωσιν
apolesōsin
GROWS FROM
ὄλλυμι (ollumi), in ἀπόλλυμι
To destroy, bring to ruin, or perish.
“destroy” in this verse is apolesōsin. The Greek verb ἀπόλλυμι (apollymi) ranges across destroying, perishing, and losing; here it means they are planning to make him perish. The same word family can describe what is lost, so this plan aims to turn a living person into one who is gone.
ALSO GROWS
apōleia: Destruction, ruin, or loss.
ἀπώλεια
This noun from the same word family names the ruin toward which their counsel is directed.
apolōlos: Lost, perished.
ἀπολωλός
This form of the same verb describes one who is lost or has perished, joining the planned destruction here to the language of loss.
THE PATTERN
When a person’s presence unsettles power, separate forces can converge in a plan to destroy him.
And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,THE THREAD
And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.The preceding question names the choice their silence conceals: save a life or kill. This verse shows that silence becoming a plan of destruction. What they will not answer aloud, they enact in counsel.
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