What Does Matthew 14:35 Mean in the King James?
And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;
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
Recognition of him becomes a shared movement that carries the suffering toward his presence.
THE MEANING
When you perceive who is present, knowing moves outward through your surroundings. The sick are not left to approach alone; people carry them to him. The verse holds recognition, spreading, and care as one movement happening now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the assumption that the sick must make their way to healing alone: here, others carry them.
THE ROOT
ἐπιγνόντες
epignóntes
GROWS FROM
γινώσκω
ginōskō
To know, recognize, or perceive through encounter.
“had knowledge” in this verse is epignóntes. The word here means recognizing him, not merely receiving information about him. Recognition becomes the ignition point: it leads to a message sent across the region and then to people carrying the sick toward him.
ALSO GROWS
gnōsis: Knowledge, knowing
γνῶσις
This related word shows that the verse’s recognition belongs to a family of knowing and perception.
epignōsis: Recognition, fuller knowledge
ἐπίγνωσις
This related form echoes the verse’s movement from perceiving who he is to acting on that recognition.
ἀπέστειλαν
apesteilan
GROWS FROM
στέλλω
stellō
To send or dispatch; in ἀποστέλλω (apostellō), to send out or away.
“sent out” in this verse is apesteilan. The men do not keep their recognition private; they send it across the whole surrounding region. The same word family names both the act of sending and the messenger who is sent.
ALSO GROWS
apóstolos: Messenger, one sent
ἀπόστολος
This branch makes visible the link between spreading the news and the people who carry it.
apostolē: Sending, commission
ἀποστολή
This branch shares the seed of the dispatch that carries recognition through the region.
προσήνεγκαν
prosēnenkan
GROWS FROM
φέρω
pherō
To carry or bear; προσφέρω (prosphérō) means to carry toward or bring.
“brought” in this verse is prosēnenkan. The verb’s root is carrying, and its prefix points toward: the sick are borne into proximity with him. Care takes physical form as others carry those who are suffering.
ALSO GROWS
prosphérō: Carry toward, bring, present
προσφέρω
This is the verb family behind the act of bringing the sick to him.
anaphérō: Carry up, offer
ἀναφέρω
The same carrying root appears when something is borne upward or presented.
diaphérō: Carry across, differ or surpass
διαφέρω
This compound keeps the sense of carrying while adding movement across or distinction.
THE PATTERN
When healing is recognized, the news travels and the suffering are brought within reach.
And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy. And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.THE THREAD
I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.The same root, γινώσκω (ginōskō), meaning to know or perceive, stands behind “had knowledge” here and “know” in this verse. Matthew shows recognition moving outward into care; John opens that recognition as a knowing shared between the shepherd and his own.
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