What Does Mark 8:27 Mean in the King James?
And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Cæsarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?
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 question separates the public account of Jesus from his nature, already compressed in the name that means deliverance.
THE MEANING
The verse places you among the voices that say who Jesus is, while leaving their accounts distinct from the person they describe. His name carries the nature of deliverance, and the question brings the gap between repeated reports and that nature into view.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie is that a familiar or widely repeated account of Jesus settles who he is; a report is not the nature it describes.
THE ROOT
λέγουσιν
legousin
GROWS FROM
λέγ-/λόγ- (leg-/log-)
To say, tell, or speak; the related stem also forms words for a word or account.
λέγουσιν (legousin, “they say”) comes from λέγω (legō, “say, tell”), in the λέγ-/λόγ- (leg-/log-) family that also produces λόγος (logos, “word, account”). The question puts that circulating account on the table without equating it with the person described.
ALSO GROWS
logos: Word, account, or message.
λόγος
This related form links what people say with the account their words create about Jesus.
logizomai: Reckon, consider, or take into account.
λογίζομαι
This related form carries the sense of weighing something in thought, sharpening the difference between a public account and the identity being considered.
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yēšūaʿ
GROWS FROM
ישע
y-š-ʿ
Deliver, bringing someone out of constriction toward spaciousness.
The Greek form Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous, “Jesus”) carries the Hebrew name יֵשׁוּעַ (Yēšūaʿ, “Yeshua”), from ישע (y-š-ʿ, “deliver”). The name holds a nature: deliverance is movement from narrowness toward spaciousness.
ALSO GROWS
yasha: Deliver or rescue.
יָשַׁע
This verbal form shares the name’s consonants and names deliverance as an active movement.
yeshuah: Deliverance or rescue.
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun grows from the same root, connecting the name with the movement it names.
μαθητάς
mathētas
GROWS FROM
μαθ-
math-
Learn or acquire understanding.
The verse calls the listeners μαθητάς (mathētas, “disciples”), a word from the family of learning. The question meets them as learners: hearing what others say is part of their learning, but it is not yet their answer.
ALSO GROWS
mathētēs: Learner or disciple.
μαθητής
The familiar title grows directly from the root of learning, bringing the disciples’ learner-nature into focus as Jesus questions them.
mathēma: A lesson or something learned.
μάθημα
This related word connects the scene’s question with learning that takes shape through what is heard and understood.
THE PATTERN
Scripture moves identity questions from reported speech toward a response that names the person.
And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.THE THREAD
And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.The same Greek verb λέγω (legō, “say”) returns: first Jesus asks what people say, then he asks what the disciples say. The repeated root moves the question from a circulating report toward their own recognition.
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