What Does Mark 5:20 Mean in the King James?
And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.
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
A life changed by Jesus becomes the voice that carries wonder outward.
THE MEANING
You are not only where Jesus’ work takes place; you are also a voice through which it reaches farther. When what has been done for you is spoken aloud, others encounter it with wonder.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that what changes in you must stay private to matter. Here, a personal deliverance becomes public testimony without losing its intimacy.
THE ROOT
ἐθαύμαζον
ethaumazon
GROWS FROM
θαυμ-
θαυμ- (thaum-): wonder, marvel.
“marvel” in this verse is ethaumazon. The verb describes the people’s continuing response as the story travels: they are left marveling. The same root appears in both the wonder itself and what is marvelous, so the telling carries the deed into other people’s experience as wonder.
ALSO GROWS
thauma: A wonder, a marvel.
θαῦμα
This noun names the wonder that the people experience as they hear what Jesus has done.
thaumastos: Wonderful, marvelous.
θαυμαστός
This branch describes what awakens wonder, linking the people’s response to the remarkable work they hear about.
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yeshua
GROWS FROM
ישע
ישע (y-sh-ʿ): deliver from constriction into spaciousness.
The Greek form Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous, Jesus) represents the Hebrew name יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshua, deliverance). The verse points to the name’s nature through what Jesus has done for him: deliverance becomes a story that can move beyond the person who received it.
ALSO GROWS
yeshuah: Deliverance.
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun shares the root letters and names the kind of act the verse says Jesus has done for him.
hoshia: He delivered, brought to safety.
הוֹשִׁיעַ
This verb shares the root letters and gives the name’s deliverance a concrete form: someone is brought out of what held him.
ἐποίησεν
epoiēsen
GROWS FROM
ποιε-
ποιε- (poie-): do, make, bring about.
The wonder is tied to what has actually been done for him. The root also gives words for a work made and for a doer, keeping the testimony grounded in an act rather than an idea.
ALSO GROWS
poiēma: A thing made, a work.
ποίημα
The word shares the ποιε- family and highlights the tangible work behind the man’s testimony.
poiētēs: A maker, a doer.
ποιητής
This branch shares the root and keeps attention on the one who brings an act about.
THE PATTERN
What deliverance does for a person becomes testimony that carries its source into a wider circle.
Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:THE THREAD
Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.Both verses use ποιέω (poieō, do or make) for what the Lord has done for him. In verse 19, he is told to tell it; in verse 20, that telling spreads through the Decapolis.
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