What Does Matthew 27:62 Mean in the King James?
Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,
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 Greek shows these leaders becoming an assembly in motion: they gather into one body and bring that body before governing authority.
THE MEANING
People can approach power as a gathered body rather than as separate voices. This verse makes that movement visible as the chief priests and Pharisees assemble and come before Pilate.
THE ROOT
συνήχθησαν
synēchthēsan
GROWS FROM
συν- + ἄγω (syn- + agō)
Bring or lead together; gather into one place.
“came together” in this verse is synēchthēsan. The verb is the aorist passive form of συνάγω, so the leaders appear as a gathered body, not merely several people who happen to arrive. The same word family gives συναγωγή, “assembly” or “synagogue”: the English phrase hides the institutional shape of their movement.
ALSO GROWS
agō: Lead, bring.
ἄγω
The base verb supplies the movement; συν- (syn, together) turns it into bringing people together.
synagōgē: Assembly; synagogue.
συναγωγή
This related noun names the gathered body, making visible that “came together” depicts more than arriving at the same place.
THE PATTERN
A gathering can turn separate offices into one coordinated front against the one they seek to contain.
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,THE THREAD
For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,The Greek uses the same gathering verb, συνήχθησαν (synēchthēsan), as Matthew 27:62. Acts names the wider convergence, Herod, Pilate, Gentiles, and Israel, making the coalition implicit in the leaders’ approach to Pilate visible.
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