What Does Matthew 25:14 Mean in the King James?
For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
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
Heaven’s governance begins with the master’s own goods placed in human hands: the first fact is entrustment.
THE MEANING
The governance of the heavens reaches you as an entrusting: what belongs to the master is placed in the hands of those called his own. His distance does not cancel the bond; the goods remain his even as they are held in trust.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that nothing has been entrusted to you until you own it dissolves here: the goods are already in your hands, while still belonging to their giver.
THE ROOT
παρέδωκεν
paredōken
GROWS FROM
δίδωμι (didōmi), within παραδίδωμι (paradidōmi)
To give; in this compound, to hand over or entrust.
“delivered” in this verse is paredōken. The form παρέδωκεν (paredōken, “handed over”) belongs to παραδίδωμι (paradidōmi, “hand over, entrust”), built on δίδωμι (didōmi, “give”). The master’s giving puts his own goods into their hands while “his goods” keeps ownership with him: they receive a real trust, not a change in whose the goods are.
ALSO GROWS
metadidōmi: To impart or share.
μεταδίδωμι
This branch shows giving as something that can pass through a recipient to others, illuminating the potential within entrusted goods.
apodidōmi: To give back, render, or repay.
ἀποδίδωμι
The same give-root can describe a return, keeping the act of receiving connected to what is later rendered.
THE PATTERN
God’s gifts arrive as trusts for tending, governing, and sharing, not as self-originating possessions.
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.THE THREAD
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.Matthew’s παρέδωκεν (paredōken, “handed over”) and John’s ἔδωκεν (edōken, “gave”) share the core verb δίδωμι (didōmi, “give”). The connection reveals giving as the first movement: the master places what is his within others’ reach before their response enters the story.
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