What Does Mark 6:21 Mean in the King James?
And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;
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
Mark uses this same Greek word family again for Judas’s search for a convenient moment to betray Jesus, showing how an occasion can become an opening for intent.
THE MEANING
A fitting occasion gathers Herod’s rank and influence around one table. The day’s convenience gives what follows an opening; celebration and power can share the same room with an irreversible choice.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The false belief is that a festive setting or a convenient moment makes the act that follows harmless.
THE ROOT
εὐκαίρου
eukairou
GROWS FROM
καιρ-
kair-
A fitting season or moment of opportunity.
εὔκαιρος (eukairos, opportune or fitting) joins εὖ (eu, well) with καιρός (kairos, a fitting time or decisive occasion). Here, “convenient” carries the added sense of a favorable opening: the timing makes action possible.
ALSO GROWS
kairos: A fitting time, season, or decisive occasion.
καιρός
This is the stem within εὔκαιρος; the day is marked as a moment suited to what is about to happen.
eukairia: A favorable opportunity or opening.
εὐκαιρία
This noun makes the opportunity shade explicit: an occasion can offer room for an intended act.
akairos: Untimely, out of season.
ἄκαιρος
The same καιρ- stem appears with a negating prefix, showing the contrast between an opening that is well-timed and one that is not.
THE PATTERN
A moment’s timing shapes the opening through which an action can take effect.
And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.THE THREAD
And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.The word rendered “conveniently” is εὐκαίρως (eukairos, at an opportune time), from the same καιρ- (kair-, fitting occasion) stem as “convenient day” here. Mark uses that shared root for Judas’s search for an opening to hand Jesus over, showing how the occasion gains its direction from the intention meeting it.
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