What Does Matthew 11:5 Mean in the King James?
The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
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 last sign is good news reaching the poor: restoration includes who gets to hear.
THE MEANING
The verse holds open a present reality in which what is blocked can open: eyes see, legs move, skin clears, ears hear, and life rises. Its final sign is that good news reaches people who have little.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The poor are not outside the reach of good news, and bodily limitation does not mark someone as forgotten.
THE ROOT
ἐγείρονται
egeirontai
GROWS FROM
ἐγείρω
egeirō
To wake, rouse, or raise.
“raised up” in this verse is egeirontai. The verb can describe waking as well as raising someone up. The dead are named with the language of awakening, so death itself appears as a condition from which one can be roused.
ALSO GROWS
egeirō: To wake from sleep, rouse, or raise.
ἐγείρω
This is the verb in the verse; its waking sense makes the raising of the dead vivid.
egersis: A rising or resurrection.
ἔγερσις
This related noun carries the same root into the language of rising from death.
ἀναβλέπουσιν
anablepousin
GROWS FROM
βλέπω
blepō
To see or look.
“receive their sight” in this verse is anablepousin. The verb joins ana, meaning up or again, to blepō, to see. Sight returning is expressed as seeing again or looking up, a recovery of perception rather than an abstract change.
ALSO GROWS
anablepō: To look up or regain sight.
ἀναβλέπω
This is the word used for the blind in the verse: seeing returns.
emblepō: To look at or gaze upon.
ἐμβλέπω
This related form shows the same seeing-root directed toward what is before the eyes.
εὐαγγελίζονται
euangelizontai
GROWS FROM
ἀγγελ-
angel-
To announce or carry a message.
“the gospel preached” in this verse is euangelizontai. The word-family joins the messenger, the message, and the act of announcing it. The verse ends with good news being announced to the poor, so its final sign is a message that reaches them.
ALSO GROWS
angelos: Messenger.
ἄγγελος
This branch names the one who carries an announcement.
euangelion: Good news or gospel.
εὐαγγέλιον
This branch names the message announced to the poor in the verse.
THE PATTERN
Restoration appears as blocked capacities opening and good news reaching people with little.
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous: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 THREAD
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.Isaiah pairs opened eyes with unstopped ears, the first two movements in Matthew’s longer sequence. The list then opens into movement, cleansing, rising, and good news reaching the poor.
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