What Does Matthew 19:11 Mean in the King James?
But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.
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
Jesus describes receiving this saying as making room for it, a capacity that is itself given.
THE MEANING
The saying about not marrying is not a path every person can receive; it finds room in those to whom this capacity is given. That difference is presented as a gift, not a measure of anyone’s worth.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
You are not deficient because you cannot receive every demanding saying as your own calling; this verse presents receptivity as a gift, not a universal capacity.
THE ROOT
χωροῦσιν
chōrousin
GROWS FROM
χωρέω
chōreō
To make room, contain, or have room for.
The word translated “receive” has a spatial sense: the saying has room in a person, or it does not. The phrase also says that this capacity for receiving is given.
ALSO GROWS
chōra: A region, land, or space.
χώρα
This branch makes the spatial sense visible: receiving the saying is pictured as having room for it.
chōrion: A place or parcel of land.
χωρίον
This word names a place that can be occupied; it echoes the verse’s picture of a saying finding room within someone.
THE PATTERN
A person’s capacity to receive is presented as something given, not a universal possession.
He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.THE THREAD
I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.“Hath no place” translates χωρεῖ (chōrei), the same verb family as “receive” here. The Greek lets both verses speak in the language of room: a word is received where it has space within.
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