What Does Mark 4:10 Mean in the King James?
And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.
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 verse’s “alone” still has a circle around it: the crowd is gone, and those close enough to ask remain.
THE MEANING
A teaching can remain unclear even when it is close; the question belongs to the encounter. The people around Jesus are still asking what the parable means, and their asking is part of being near him.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Not understanding at first does not mean you are outside the circle; those gathered closest still ask what the parable means.
THE ROOT
παραβολή
parabolē
GROWS FROM
βάλλω (ballō, “throw or cast”), with παρά (para, “beside”)
To cast or put something beside something else.
A parable is an image placed beside the truth it carries. The people around Jesus ask him to open the connection between the story and what it reveals.
ALSO GROWS
ballō: Throw or cast
βάλλω
This is the action inside the word: something is cast into view.
paraballō: Put beside; compare
παραβάλλω
This compound gives the sense of setting one thing alongside another.
parabolē: Comparison; parable
παραβολή
The story stands beside its meaning, and the question asks how the two belong together.
THE PATTERN
Understanding opens as a listener brings a question close to the source of the teaching.
Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.THE THREAD
But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.This carries the same scene one verse further: when the disciples are alone with him, he expounds all things. The Greek παραβολή (parabolē, “parable” or “comparison”) is the image set beside its meaning; his explanation brings their connection into view.
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