What Does Matthew 16:22 Mean in the King James?
Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
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 rebuke is a verdict on Jesus’ path: Peter names him Lord while trying to rule out the way he has just revealed.
THE MEANING
A protective voice can call a costly path impossible while addressing the one who names it as Lord. Reverence and resistance coexist in the same sentence: “Lord” is spoken while “this shall not be unto thee” refuses the path before him.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief undone is that reverent language guarantees trust: someone can say “Lord” and still try to veto the path before them.
THE ROOT
ἐπιτιμᾶν
epitiman
GROWS FROM
τιμάω
timaō
To honor, value, or set a price; in the compound verb, to censure or rebuke.
The Greek verb means to rebuke or censure, and its word family also carries the language of honor and value. Peter’s words do more than express alarm: they judge the path Jesus has named as unacceptable, even as Peter calls him Lord.
ALSO GROWS
timē: Honor, value, or price.
τιμή
This branch shows the valuation language within the word family: Peter’s rebuke places a judgment on the path and marks it as something that should not happen.
timios: Valuable, precious, or honored.
τίμιος
This branch sharpens the tension: Peter addresses Jesus with honor while treating the suffering path as a cost that must not be paid.
THE PATTERN
The way toward life can look like a costly passage to stop before its fruit appears.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.THE THREAD
But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.Mark uses the same Greek verb, ἐπιτιμάω (epitimaō), meaning “to rebuke,” when Jesus answers Peter. The direction of the rebuke turns: the voice declaring Jesus’ path impossible now receives that same force.
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