What Does Matthew 27:19 Mean in the King James?
When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
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
Before judgment is pronounced, a private dream drives a warning into the seat of power, and the warning names Jesus as just.
THE MEANING
The warning comes through a dream, and the wife names Jesus as “that just man.” Her distress enters the governor’s household while he sits in judgment. The verse holds public authority beside testimony that presses against its decision.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that the person in the judgment seat can treat the case as self-contained dissolves: a warning reaches him before he decides.
THE ROOT
δικαίῳ
dikaiōi
GROWS FROM
δικ-
dik-
Rightness and justice; alignment with what is right.
The Greek calls Jesus “the just one” (dikaios), from a word family that also names justice and the act of declaring someone just. The same root holds together a person’s character and the recognition of right alignment, placing that recognition at the center of a judgment.
ALSO GROWS
dikaiosynē: Righteousness, justice; alignment.
δικαιοσύνη
The shared root connects the description of Jesus as just with the broader quality of right alignment.
dikaioō: To justify, declare just; to align.
δικαιόω
This branch names the act of recognizing someone as just, echoing the wife’s warning before the governor’s decision.
THE PATTERN
A dream can carry warning from private distress into a consequential decision.
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.THE THREAD
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.The same δικ- word family appears in “this just person,” repeating the quality Pilate’s wife names here. The root’s echo brings her warning back into public view from the very seat of power.
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