What Does Matthew 26:28 Mean in the King James?
For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
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
“Remission” means release: the verse presents sins as something that can be let go, not a permanent identity.
THE MEANING
Jesus (יֵשׁוּעַ, Yeshua, from יָשַׁע, yasha: deliverance from narrowness into spaciousness) speaks of his blood poured out in covenant for many, with release from sins as its purpose. The verse meets you now with the claim that what is held as guilt can be released.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that your failures are fixed to you and can never be released.
THE ROOT
ἄφεσις
aphesis
GROWS FROM
ἀφίημι
aphiēmi
To let go, send away, or release; the verb also means forgive.
“Remission” can sound like a status recorded after wrongdoing, while ἄφεσις (aphesis, release) holds the image of letting go. The same Greek noun is used for deliverance and liberty, showing that release from sins belongs to a wider language of liberation.
ALSO GROWS
aphiēmi: Release, let go, or forgive.
ἀφίημι
This is the verb behind the noun ἄφεσις, making remission an act of release.
apheōntai: They have been released or forgiven.
ἀφέωνται
This form of the same verb appears in Luke 5:20 for sins that have been released.
ἐκχυννόμενον
ekchynnomenon
GROWS FROM
ἐκχέω
ekcheō
To pour out or pour forth.
“shed” in this verse is ekchynnomenon. The Greek pictures Jesus’ blood being poured out. The image keeps the verse’s physical force while showing that its stated purpose is release.
ALSO GROWS
cheō: Pour or spill.
χέω
This base verb carries the action of pouring within ἐκχέω.
ekcheō: Pour out, pour forth.
ἐκχέω
This is the verb behind the verse’s “shed,” presenting the blood as poured out.
διαθήκη
diathēkē
GROWS FROM
τίθημι (tithēmi), in διατίθημι (diatithēmi)
To set or place; with διά (dia), to arrange or establish.
“new testament” in this verse is diathēkē. Alongside the KJV’s “testament,” διαθήκη (diathēkē, covenant) carries the sense of an arrangement set in place. Here the covenant is made tangible in the poured-out blood, and release is its stated purpose.
ALSO GROWS
tithēmi: Set or place.
τίθημι
This root gives the word family its sense of something established.
diatithēmi: Arrange or establish a covenant.
διατίθημι
This related verb shows the arranging sense carried by διαθήκη.
THE PATTERN
Covenant release makes what is held, debt, sin, or captivity, able to be let go.
And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD’s release.And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.THE THREAD
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,The same Greek noun ἄφεσις (aphesis, release) translated “remission” here appears twice in this verse, rendered “deliverance” and “liberty.” Release from sins belongs to the same word-space as release for captives and the crushed.
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