What Does Matthew 14:14 Mean in the King James?
And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.
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
Compassion here is an inward stirring that does not stop at feeling; it flows into care for the sick.
THE MEANING
When suffering comes into view now, compassion is more than recognition: it stirs inwardly and reaches toward the sick with care. The verse holds seeing, being moved, and healing in one movement.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that compassion is only a feeling kept private; here, the inward stirring moves into care that restores.
THE ROOT
ἐσπλαγχνίσθη
esplagchnisthē
GROWS FROM
σπλαγχν-
splagchn- stem
Inward parts or organs; figuratively, the seat of deep affection.
“moved with compassion” in this verse is esplagchnisthē. The verb is built from the word for the inward organs, picturing compassion as something stirred deep inside. The same stem appears in words for the inward parts and for a tenderhearted person; here, that inner stirring moves into healing.
ALSO GROWS
splagchnon: Inward part; also used figuratively for deep affection.
σπλάγχνον
This related noun makes the inward source of the compassion explicit.
eusplagchnos: Tenderhearted, compassionate.
εὔσπλαγχνος
This related word describes a person by the same deep inward quality that moves Jesus toward the sick.
ἐθεράπευσεν
etherapeusen
GROWS FROM
θεραπευ-
therapeu- stem
To attend to or serve; also to treat or heal.
English “healed” can sound like an outcome detached from care. The Greek verb also carries the sense of attending to or serving, and a related noun can name an attendant; restoration appears here as care given to the sick.
ALSO GROWS
therapeia: Service, treatment, or healing.
θεραπεία
The related noun holds care and healing together, deepening the sense of what happens to the sick.
therapōn: Attendant, servant.
θεράπων
This related word for an attendant echoes the verb’s sense of care through attendance.
THE PATTERN
Compassion moves from inward concern into care that meets suffering.
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.THE THREAD
And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.Mark uses the same Greek word, σπλαγχνίζομαι (splagchnizomai, to be moved with compassion). There, the inward movement takes visible form as a hand reaching out and healing.
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