What Does Matthew 13:35 Mean in the King James?
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
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
A parable places an image beside what has been hidden until the hidden thing can be heard.
THE MEANING
What has been concealed since the world’s foundation comes into speech through parables: the visible image gives the hidden thing a shape the ear can receive. Revelation is not a truth manufactured when it is spoken; it is what was hidden becoming speakable now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that what is hidden must be absent or unreachable gives way: concealment can precede disclosure.
THE ROOT
κεκρυμμένα
kekrymmena
GROWS FROM
κρύπτω
kryptō
to hide or conceal, to keep out of sight
“kept secret” in this verse is kekrymmena. The Greek names things that have been concealed, not a vague mystery without substance. The same root appears in words for what is hidden away, linking concealment with the possibility of later disclosure.
ALSO GROWS
kryptos: hidden, concealed
κρυπτός
This branch keeps the sense of something real that remains out of view.
apokryptō: to hide away, conceal
ἀποκρύπτω
Its compound form carries the same root into the idea of something kept concealed.
παραβολαῖς
parabolais
GROWS FROM
παραβάλλω (paraballō), from παρά (para) + βάλλω (ballō)
to place or cast beside
“parables” in this verse is parabolais. A parable is a placing-beside: an image stands alongside what is hidden, and their relation brings it into view. The form of the speech is part of the unveiling, the concealed meaning appears through comparison.
ALSO GROWS
paraballō: to place beside, compare
παραβάλλω
It shows how a parable makes meaning perceptible by setting one thing alongside another.
parabolē: comparison, parable
παραβολή
This is the word’s noun form: the image placed beside the hidden meaning.
THE PATTERN
Wisdom hidden from view becomes hearable when truth is placed beside an image.
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:THE THREAD
Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:The word for what has been hidden here shares its root with Colossians’ description of a mystery hidden through ages and now made manifest. Together, the verses show concealment giving way to disclosure, while Matthew reveals the parable as the form that brings the hidden into speech.
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