What Does Matthew 15:29 Mean in the King James?
And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there.
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 Greek gives both “departed” and “went up” the same root, so leaving and ascent are one movement carried in different directions.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks to your movement from one place toward another: leaving, drawing near, rising, and finally sitting. Motion does not remain endless; it arrives at a place of settled presence.
THE ROOT
μεταβὰς
metabás
GROWS FROM
βαίνω
βαίνω (baínō): to go, step, or move from place to place.
Matthew uses two forms from βαίνω (baínō) in this verse: μεταβὰς (metabás), “departed,” and ἀναβὰς (anabás), “went up.” English gives them separate verbs, while Greek keeps the shared sense of going and lets the prefixes supply the direction; the journey is one continuous movement.
ALSO GROWS
metabaínō: to pass from one place to another; to move on
μεταβαίνω
This compound uses the shared βαίνω root for the movement KJV renders “departed.”
anabaínō: to go up; to ascend
ἀναβαίνω
The verse uses this same root with ἀνά- (“up”) for “went up,” linking ascent to the earlier departure.
katabaínō: to go down; to descend
καταβαίνω
The same root with κατά- (“down”) shows how direction changes while the underlying movement remains.
THE PATTERN
A mountain ascent becomes a threshold where encounter or calling takes shape.
And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him.THE THREAD
And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.Both verses use a form of βαίνω (baínō) for going up into a mountain. Here, the same movement-root first carries Jesus away from one place and then upward; in Matthew 14:23, ascent opens into solitude.
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