What Does Matthew 13:51 Mean in the King James?
Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.
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
In Greek, to understand is to bring things together, so Jesus asks whether the separate parables now form one whole.
THE MEANING
The question reaches you now: do the separate images fit together into a whole? “Yea, Lord” names the moment when what you have heard becomes something you can grasp together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the idea that hearing each saying separately is already understanding; the Greek verb pictures grasping them together.
THE ROOT
συνήκατε
synēkate
GROWS FROM
συνίημι
syniēmi
To bring together; hence, to comprehend.
“understood” in this verse is synēkate. The verb here is συνήκατε, from συνίημι: understanding as bringing things together. The answer “Yea” affirms that the separate sayings have become graspable as a whole.
ALSO GROWS
synesis: understanding, comprehension
σύνεσις
This noun names the joined comprehension the question asks about.
synetos: intelligent, discerning
συνετός
This related word describes the discernment that can gather what is said into a coherent whole.
THE PATTERN
Understanding joins what is heard with the whole it belongs to.
But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.THE THREAD
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,The same verb for “understand” appears here. It links the parables becoming a whole with the scriptures becoming intelligible.
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