What Does Matthew 28:11 Mean in the King James?
Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done.
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 women carry the resurrection toward Jesus’ brothers as the guards carry it toward the chief priests: the same event enters two different networks at once.
THE MEANING
An event becomes public through the people who carry it. Here, the women move toward Jesus’ brothers while the guards report to the chief priests, showing how the same event enters different networks.
THE ROOT
ἀπήγγειλαν
apēngeilan
GROWS FROM
ἀγγελ-
angel-
Message or announcement; this word family includes messengers and the act of announcing.
The verb translated “showed” means “reported” or “announced,” and belongs to the same word family as ἄγγελος (angelos, “messenger”). English hides that the guards become messengers: the report’s destination is part of how the event moves through the world.
ALSO GROWS
angelos: Messenger
ἄγγελος
This noun makes the guards’ role visible: they carry news into the city.
angelia: Message or report
ἀγγελία
The shared root links the act of reporting with the message being carried; the word itself does not decide how the report will be received.
THE PATTERN
What witnesses encounter moves beyond them through the reports they carry, and those reports shape what others can know.
Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king’s household.And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest.For we can not but speak the things which we have seen and heard.THE THREAD
Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.Matthew’s “reported” and John’s “told” draw on the ἀγγελ- (angel-, “messenger/announce”) word family. Both passages show news of the resurrection carried onward, while the witnesses bring it to different people.
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