What Does Mark 5:10 Mean in the King James?
And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
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 spirits can occupy a territory, but they still have to plead with the one who holds authority to send them out.
THE MEANING
A force can press on your life without owning the ground it occupies; it still answers to authority beyond itself. The spirits plead with Jesus not to send them outside the region, revealing that their presence is not self-governing.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Whatever has settled into my life has the right to stay. This verse reveals that occupation does not equal ownership.
THE ROOT
ἀποστείλῃ
aposteilē
GROWS FROM
στέλλω
stellō
Send, dispatch; combined with ἀπό (apo, from or away), it forms a verb for sending away or dispatching.
“send them away” in this verse is aposteilē. The verb carries the sense of dispatching, and the phrase adds ἔξω (exō, outside): the spirits ask not to be sent outside the region. The same word family gives ἀπόστολος (apostolos, messenger or one sent), connecting the authority to send something away with the act of sending someone forth.
ALSO GROWS
apostolos: Messenger; one sent
ἀπόστολος
This related word names a person who is sent with authority, showing that sending is a movement directed by someone beyond the one sent.
apostolē: Sending; commission
ἀποστολή
This related noun makes the verb’s underlying idea visible: a sending proceeds from a sender with authority to direct where something goes.
THE PATTERN
Authority over what harms a person is shown in the power to remove it and restore what it grips.
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.THE THREAD
And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;The same Greek verb, ἀποστέλλω (apostellō, send or dispatch), describes sending the spirits away and Jesus sending the Twelve forth. In the next chapter, those he sends carry authority over unclean spirits.
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