What Does Matthew 26:25 Mean in the King James?
Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.
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 “betrayed” means “handed over,” and Jesus returns Judas’s question to the words he has spoken.
THE MEANING
A person can be handing someone over while asking whether the act is theirs. Jesus’s reply returns the question to its speaker: what is being done and what is being said meet in the open.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that asking whether you are responsible can keep an act from being named. Jesus makes Judas’s own words part of the answer.
THE ROOT
παραδιδούς
paradidous
GROWS FROM
δίδωμι
didōmi
To give.
Judas is described as the one handing Jesus over; “betrayed” names the character of that handover, while the Greek verb is built on “give.” The root lets this act remain connected to the wider language of giving and handing over, a connection the English label alone can hide.
ALSO GROWS
paradidōmi: Hand over, deliver.
παραδίδωμι
This is the verb behind Judas’s description in the verse: his betrayal takes the form of handing Jesus over.
metadidōmi: Share, impart.
μεταδίδωμι
This related verb uses the same “give” root for sharing something with another, showing how the root can describe different directions and purposes of giving.
didōmi: Give.
δίδωμι
The simple verb makes visible the root contained in the word translated “betrayed.”
THE PATTERN
Words carry and disclose more than their surface phrasing: they can reveal what a person holds within or what an act means.
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.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?Matthew describes Judas as the one handing Jesus over; Romans uses the same Greek verb when it says God “delivered him up” for all. The shared root keeps the act of handing over visible while the verses name different agents and purposes.
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