What Does Mark 6:33 Mean in the King James?
And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto 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
Here, knowing Jesus is recognition that moves the whole person toward him and outruns distance.
THE MEANING
When you recognize Jesus, knowing becomes movement toward the one you recognize. What seems like his departure does not end the encounter; even the distance becomes a path of gathering around him.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that when Jesus seems to be leaving, the encounter is over.
THE ROOT
ἐπέγνωσαν
epégnōsan
GROWS FROM
γινώσκω
ginōskō
To know or perceive through recognition.
“knew” in this verse is epégnōsan. The word is a form of knowing built on recognition, not merely possessing information. The verse moves straight from recognizing Jesus to running toward him: this knowing shows itself in the body.
ALSO GROWS
ginōskō: To know or perceive.
γινώσκω
The base verb shows the seed beneath the verse’s word for recognizing Jesus.
gnōsis: Knowledge or understanding.
γνῶσις
This noun shares the knowing-root, while the verse depicts recognition becoming more than a fact held in the mind.
epiginōskō: To recognize or know fully.
ἐπιγινώσκω
This is the verb used in the verse; its recognition of Jesus leads directly into the crowd’s movement toward him.
συνῆλθον
synēlthon
GROWS FROM
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
To come or go; with συν-, to come together.
“came together” in this verse is synēlthon. The crowd does not merely reach the same place: the verb carries the sense of coming together. The English can make the gathering sound like a detail of travel, while the Greek makes convergence part of the scene’s movement toward Jesus.
ALSO GROWS
erchomai: To come or go.
ἔρχομαι
This is the verb-family seed beneath the verse’s word for coming together.
sunerchomai: To come together or gather.
συνέρχομαι
This compound adds “together” to the same coming-root and names the crowd’s convergence.
proserchomai: To approach or come toward.
προσέρχομαι
This branch makes the directional pull of coming toward someone explicit, echoing the crowd’s movement unto Jesus.
THE PATTERN
Recognition of the one who draws people near becomes movement toward him.
Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased.And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?THE THREAD
I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.The same Greek knowing-root appears in both verses. Here recognition sends the crowd toward Jesus; there Jesus describes that knowing as mutual: he knows his sheep, and they know him.
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