What Does Mark 8:29 Mean in the King James?
And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.
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
Christ names Jesus as the Anointed One, with the act of anointing still alive inside the title.
THE MEANING
The question comes to you beneath what others say about Jesus: whom do you say he is? Peter names him as the Anointed One, a title that carries the calling entrusted to him.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
What others say about Jesus is enough to settle who he is.
THE ROOT
Χριστός
Christos
GROWS FROM
χρι
χρί- (chri-) means to anoint, to apply oil as a mark.
The Greek stem χρι- (chri-) keeps the title connected to χρίω (chriō, “to anoint”) and χρῖσμα (chrisma, “anointing”). “Christ” can sound like a name attached to Jesus, while Χριστός names him as the one anointed.
ALSO GROWS
chriō: To anoint; to apply oil.
χρίω
This verb carries the action inside the title: Jesus is identified by the act of anointing.
chrisma: Anointing; anointing substance.
χρῖσμα
This noun names what comes from the same stem, keeping the title joined to the act and mark of anointing.
Christos: The Anointed One.
Χριστός
This is the title Peter speaks, naming Jesus through the anointing carried by the root.
THE PATTERN
Anointing marks a calling that testimony can recognize even while rival voices contest it.
Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.THE THREAD
He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.John explicitly pairs “Messias” with “Christ,” identifying both as “the Anointed One.” Mark gives Peter’s recognition in that same title, whose Greek root still carries the act of anointing.
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