What Does Matthew 24:10 Mean in the King James?
And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
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
What begins as a stumble can spread outward until people hand one another over and hatred becomes mutual.
THE MEANING
When trust fractures, the rupture can spread: people stumble, hand one another over, and turn against each other. The verse names a chain reaction in which hurt reaches beyond one person and becomes betrayal and mutual hatred.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that offense stays private or harmless: here, a stumble can spill into betrayal and hatred.
THE ROOT
σκανδαλισθήσονται
skandalisthēsontai
GROWS FROM
σκάνδαλ-
skandal-
A trap or stumbling block; something that catches the foot and brings a fall.
The verb translated “offended” carries the image of being tripped or ensnared, beyond simply feeling insulted. The verse shows that this stumble can become the first link in a wider break between people.
ALSO GROWS
skándalon: A trap or obstacle that catches someone and causes a fall.
σκάνδαλον
It reveals the force behind “offended”: a person is caught or tripped, not merely displeased.
skandalízō: To cause someone to stumble or become ensnared.
σκανδαλίζω
This is the verb behind the verse’s “offended,” showing how the rupture begins with a stumble.
παραδώσουσιν
paradōsousin
GROWS FROM
δίδωμι (didōmi), with παρά (para)
δίδωμι means “give”; παρά adds the sense of handing over or delivering to another.
The word translated “betray” pictures people handing one another over. That makes the breach active: each person becomes someone else’s transfer into another’s hands.
ALSO GROWS
dídōmi: To give or grant.
δίδωμι
This is the verb at the center of “hand over”; betrayal here takes the form of giving another person into someone else’s power.
parádosis: Something delivered or passed on.
παράδοσις
The related compound also carries the sense of handing something along, illuminating the transfer contained in “betray.”
THE PATTERN
When trust breaks, hostility can reach into the closest bonds and turn them into channels of betrayal.
Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.THE THREAD
Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.“Offended” translates the same Greek verb, σκανδαλίζω (skandalízō), meaning “cause to stumble” or “ensnare.” Here the stumble is linked with scattering, opening Matthew 24:10’s warning as a rupture that can break the bonds holding people together.
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