What Does Mark 6:30 Mean in the King James?
And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.
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 apostles are the sent ones, and here their sending includes a return to Jesus with the whole account of what they did and taught.
THE MEANING
Your work and your teaching arrive together before Jesus; neither stands alone in the account. The sent life in this verse has a rhythm of going out, gathering back, and telling what happened.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that being sent means constant outward motion, with no return to bring the work into view.
THE ROOT
ἀπόστολοι
apóstoloi
GROWS FROM
στέλλω
stellō
to send, dispatch
“Apostles” carries the sense of people who are sent out. Here they gather back to Jesus, so their sending includes a return in which their work becomes visible.
ALSO GROWS
apostellō: send out, dispatch
ἀποστέλλω
This verb makes the sending within “apostles” explicit.
apóstolos: envoy, one sent
ἀπόστολος
This is the singular form of the word used for the apostles, naming them by their sending.
apostolē: sending, commission
ἀποστολή
This branch names the act or charge carried by someone who is sent.
ἀπήγγειλαν
apēngeilan
GROWS FROM
ἀγγέλλω
angellō
to announce, report
“Told” belongs to the announcing and reporting word family, which also gives Greek its words for a messenger and a message. The verse brings the sent ones back to Jesus as reporters of the whole work.
ALSO GROWS
ángelos: messenger
ἄγγελος
The messenger carries an announcement, linking the apostles’ report with the work of bearing news.
angelía: message, report
ἀγγελία
This branch names what is conveyed, echoing the account the apostles bring to Jesus.
THE PATTERN
What is carried out in service returns as a full account that can be shared.
And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.THE THREAD
Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.The Greek word behind “apostles” belongs to the same sending family as “hath sent” here. Mark shows the sent ones gathered back before Jesus; John places sending within a continuing movement from the Father, through Jesus, and outward.
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