What Does Matthew 9:30 Mean in the King James?
And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.
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
Their eyes are opened, yet Jesus commands them to keep the encounter from becoming public knowledge.
THE MEANING
Your seeing can be real before it is shared or recognized by others. Jesus holds the men’s newly opened sight and its disclosure apart: they see, yet are told not to make it known. The encounter is real before it becomes a report.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that a real transformation needs public confirmation.
THE ROOT
ἠνεῴχθησαν
ēneōichthēsan
GROWS FROM
ἀνοιγ-
Open; the verb ἀνοίγω (anoigō) means to open.
“opened” in this verse is ēneōichthēsan. Matthew uses the opening verb for the men’s eyes. The same verb family appears when Scripture describes eyes opening into recognition, linking restored sight with the possibility of perceiving who is present.
ALSO GROWS
dianoigō: Open fully; explain.
διανοίγω
In Luke 24:31, this related verb describes the travelers’ eyes opening before they recognize Jesus.
anoigma: An opening.
ἄνοιγμα
This noun from the same word family keeps the image concrete: something closed becomes open.
γινωσκέτω
ginōsketō
GROWS FROM
γινωσκ-
Know, recognize.
“know” in this verse is ginōsketō. The verb is γινώσκω (ginōskō), which can carry the sense of knowing or recognizing through encounter. Here the sentence plainly directs that no one is to learn of the event, distinguishing the men’s opened sight from its public disclosure.
ALSO GROWS
gnōsis: Knowledge.
γνῶσις
This related noun makes visible the knowing-language behind the command that nobody know about the healing.
epiginōskō: Recognize, know fully.
ἐπιγινώσκω
This compound retains the same knowing root, connecting knowledge with recognition rather than mere information.
THE PATTERN
Scripture uses opened eyes to picture what was hidden becoming perceptible, and sometimes recognizable.
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.THE THREAD
And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.Luke uses διανοίγω (dianoigō), a compound of the same opening verb as Matthew’s ἀνοίγω (anoigō), for eyes that open and are followed by recognition. Matthew holds sight apart from public disclosure; Luke shows opened sight becoming recognition of the one before them.
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