What Does Matthew 23:36 Mean in the King James?
Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
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
Because “generation” grows from the Greek language of birth and becoming, what arrives here meets a people still coming into being.
THE MEANING
This word meets you inside a living generation: what has been done does not simply disappear when time passes. The violence named around this verse arrives upon the people within its continuing reach, and the sentence leaves the weight of that arrival unsoftened.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie is that violence becomes harmless once it belongs to the past. Here its consequences reach the living generation.
THE ROOT
γενεὰν
genean
GROWS FROM
γεν-
Be born, beget, come into being.
The Greek word for “generation” belongs to the family of birth and becoming. English can make it sound like a mere span of time; the root also carries the sense of a people coming into being, where what has been done reaches the living.
ALSO GROWS
genos: Kin, lineage, kind.
γένος
This branch shows the shared root’s range: birth gives rise to a people or kind, not just a point on a timeline.
gennaō: Beget, give birth.
γεννάω
The direct language of bringing forth makes the birth-root inside “generation” audible.
ginomai: Become, come to be.
γίνομαι
This recognized related form carries the sense of coming into existence, connecting a generation with people being brought into being.
THE PATTERN
Violence and wrongdoing remain active among the living and can reach beyond the moment they are committed.
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;THE THREAD
That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;Luke uses the same Greek word, γενεᾶς (geneas), for “generation,” and names the people from whom the prophets’ blood is required. That shared root makes Matthew’s arrival of “all these things” part of a recurring image of accumulated blood reaching the living.
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