What Does Matthew 19:2 Mean in the King James?
And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them 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 word translated “healed” also carries the sense of attending to someone: healing arrives as care given where the people already are.
THE MEANING
The scene speaks now: people draw near to Jesus, and he attends to them where they are. Healing happens there, in the place where their need and his presence meet.
THE ROOT
θεράπευσεν
etherapeusen
GROWS FROM
θεραπευ-
therapeu-
Attend to, serve, or care for; also treat or heal.
The Greek verb translated “healed” can describe attending to someone as well as healing them. It holds care and cure together: Jesus’ response is personal attention that restores.
ALSO GROWS
therapōn: An attendant or servant.
θεράπων
This related word makes the sense of attending visible: healing here is care given to people, not just a change in their condition.
therapeia: Attendance, service, or medical treatment and healing.
θεραπεία
This related noun holds service and healing together, echoing the way Jesus attends to the people and heals them there.
THE PATTERN
Healing reaches people within the place where they gather near.
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.THE THREAD
But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;Matthew 12:15 uses the same Greek verb, θεραπεύω (therapeuō), for “healed” and pairs it with multitudes following Jesus. Its “all” makes explicit the breadth held within “them” here.
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