What Does Matthew 26:2 Mean in the King James?
Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
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
At Passover, the Son of Man is handed over, the feast of passing over sits beside the act of transfer.
THE MEANING
Two days remain before Passover, and the Son of Man is being handed over to crucifixion. The verse holds the feast of passing over beside a person’s transfer into the hands of those who crucify him.
THE ROOT
παραδίδοται
paradí
GROWS FROM
δίδωμι
to give, grant, or put into another’s possession
“betrayed” in this verse is paradí. The Greek verb also names the concrete act of handing someone over. Its root is the ordinary verb for giving, so the violence here is carried in the language of transfer: a person is placed into other hands.
ALSO GROWS
paradídōmi: to hand over, deliver
παραδίδωμι
This is the compound verb behind παραδίδοται; it makes the transfer into another’s hands explicit alongside the betrayal.
metadídōmi: to share, impart
μεταδίδωμι
This compound carries the same δίδωμι (didōmi, “give”) root into sharing: the root describes transfer, while the surrounding word gives it direction.
apodídōmi: to give back, repay
ἀποδίδωμι
This compound uses the same giving root for return, showing how the root’s meaning of transfer takes its shape from the word around it.
THE PATTERN
Passover’s deliverance is marked by a blood-covered threshold, and Christ is named as the Passover who is sacrificed.
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.THE THREAD
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?Romans uses the same Greek verb, παραδίδωμι (paradídōmi, “hand over”), for the Son being delivered up. It opens Matthew’s act of transfer into a wider pattern where the handover carries both violence and costly giving.
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