What Does Mark 6:1 Mean in the King James?
And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples follow 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 disciples follow Jesus not away from his roots, but straight into them.
THE MEANING
Jesus enters the place tied to his own origins, and his disciples go with him. Here, following is movement lived alongside him, even as he returns to familiar ground.
THE ROOT
μαθηταὶ
mathētai
GROWS FROM
μανθ-
manth-
The verbal stem in μανθάνω (manthanō), meaning “learn.”
The word translated “disciples” names learners: these followers are defined by learning, not simply by proximity. In this sentence, their following is the outward movement of that learning; they go where Jesus goes.
ALSO GROWS
mathētēs: Learner, student, disciple
μαθητής
The noun names the kind of person who follows Jesus here: one who learns from him.
manthanō: To learn
μάνθανω
The verb reveals the learning held inside the identity of a disciple.
πατρίδα
patrida
GROWS FROM
πατήρ
patēr
Father; paternal origin and belonging.
“His own country” is πατρίς (patris), a place named through πατήρ (patēr), “father”: country carries the sense of paternal origin and belonging. The sentence places this rootedness beside the disciples’ movement, so belonging and following appear together.
ALSO GROWS
patēr: Father
πατήρ
This is the word behind the sense of paternal origin in πατρίς.
patria: Family, lineage, kindred
πατριά
This related word extends the root’s sense of origin into a family or line of belonging.
THE PATTERN
Following takes shape as movement in the wake of another.
And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.THE THREAD
And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.Mark 1:18 uses the same verb, ἀκολουθέω (akoloutheō), “follow.” Here that same movement carries the disciples into Jesus’s own country: following is motion that travels with him.
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