What Does Mark 6:3 Mean in the King James?
Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at 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 word “offended” pictures a stumble: the familiar facts about him become the snare that keeps them from seeing him.
THE MEANING
A person can be held inside the familiar facts attached to them, their work, family, and place among you. When those facts become the measure of what is possible, they can trip recognition at the very point of encounter. The verse names that trip as offense, a snare in the path.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Knowing someone’s role, family, or history does not mean you have seen the whole person. Familiarity itself can become the reason you fail to recognize what is present.
THE ROOT
ἐσκανδαλίζοντο
eskandalizonto
GROWS FROM
σκανδαλίζω
skandalizō
To cause to stumble, ensnare, or take offense.
“offended” in this verse is eskandalizonto. The word’s family holds the image of a snare or stumbling block alongside the sense of taking offense. Their response is a stumble in their encounter with him, and the familiar identities listed just before it sit at the edge of that snare.
ALSO GROWS
skandalon: Snare; stumbling block.
σκάνδαλον
The noun makes the hidden image in “offended” visible: something in the encounter becomes a trap or obstacle.
skandalismos: Stumbling; occasion of offense.
σκανδαλισμός
This related noun keeps the focus on being tripped up, illuminating the force behind their reaction.
THE PATTERN
Familiar roles and outward appearances can narrow recognition of what is present.
But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.He came unto his own, and his own received him not.And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.THE THREAD
When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?“Offend” translates the same Greek word family as Mark’s “were offended.” Here the stumble arises during an encounter with his words; the shared root lets you see offense as a point where recognition catches and falters.
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