What Does Mark 9:1 Mean in the King James?
And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
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
God’s governance becomes visible in power within the lifetime of those standing here.
THE MEANING
The verse addresses the living reader with a sharp horizon: some who stand here perceive God’s governance arriving in power before they experience death. The claim locates that encounter inside mortal life.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
God’s reign can only be encountered after death.
THE ROOT
βασιλεία
basileia
GROWS FROM
βασιλ-
basil-
King, kingship, or ruling.
“kingdom” in this verse is basileia. The Greek word can name kingship or reign as well as a realm. Here, “come” with power lets you see God’s governance as active and perceptible.
ALSO GROWS
basileus: King, ruler.
βασιλεύς
The word’s relation to a ruler grounds “kingdom” in the act and authority of ruling.
basileuō: To reign, rule as king.
βασιλεύω
This branch makes the governing action in “the kingdom of God” easier to hear.
δύναμις
dynamis
GROWS FROM
δυνα-
dyna-
To be able; capacity or ability.
The word for power carries the sense of capacity in action. God’s governance is seen as effective, arriving with the ability to act.
ALSO GROWS
dynamai: To be able, have the capacity.
δύναμαι
This verb reveals the ability held inside the word translated “power.”
dynatos: Able, capable, powerful.
δυνατός
This related word keeps power tied to what can actually be done.
γεύομαι
geuomai
GROWS FROM
γευ-
geu-
To taste, experience.
The verb carries both the concrete sense of tasting and the extended sense of experiencing. To “taste death” is to undergo it, making the verse’s contrast between death and seeing God’s reign sharply experiential.
ALSO GROWS
geuomai: Taste; experience.
γεύομαι
This is the verb behind “taste of death,” where tasting means undergoing an experience.
geusis: Taste, tasting.
γεῦσις
This related noun preserves the sensory image that also extends to experience.
THE PATTERN
God’s reign becomes recognizable through its active reach and effects in human life.
And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judæa, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.THE THREAD
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.Hebrews uses the same Greek verb for “taste” when it says Jesus tastes death. The shared root makes the phrase experiential: death is undergone, while God’s reign is perceived within mortal life.
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