What Does Mark 8:13 Mean in the King James?
And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the other side.
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 Greek word for “left” belongs to the same word family as “release” and “forgiveness”: Jesus lets the encounter go and crosses onward.
THE MEANING
A demand remains unanswered: Jesus leaves, boards the ship again, and goes to the other side. The verse holds departure as a release of the encounter, while the journey continues.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the assumption that an unanswered demand must keep the journey from continuing.
THE ROOT
ἀφείς
apheis
GROWS FROM
ἀπό + ἵημι (apo + hiēmi)
To send away or let go; the compound ἀφίημι carries meanings including leave, release, and forgive.
The word for Jesus leaving belongs to the same Greek family as ἄφεσις, meaning release or forgiveness. The departure is not itself called forgiveness, but the shared word family lets “he left them” carry the added sense of letting the encounter go.
ALSO GROWS
aphiēmi: To leave, release, or forgive.
ἀφίημι
This is the verb behind “left,” holding departure and release within one word family.
aphesis: Release, remission, or forgiveness.
ἄφεσις
The related noun names release directly, as in Luke’s words about release for captives.
THE PATTERN
Leaving can end a charged encounter while the journey keeps moving.
And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.But he passing through the midst of them went his way,When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.THE THREAD
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,The Greek word translated “deliverance” here, ἄφεσις (aphesis), belongs to the same word family as “left” in Mark. In Mark, Jesus releases an encounter; here, the same family names release for captives.
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