What Does Matthew 9:35 Mean in the King James?
And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
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 kingdom is announced as a governance that reaches the body: its message and its healing arrive together.
THE MEANING
Here, Jesus moves through every kind of place, teaching, announcing the governance of God, and tending every kind of illness among the people. The announcement reaches bodily life: care and restoration accompany the words.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the assumption that God’s reign is only an idea, or that bodily sickness lies outside its concern; proclamation and healing form one movement.
THE ROOT
βασιλείας
basileias
GROWS FROM
βασιλεύς (basileus), with the family stem βασιλευ- (basileu-)
Kingship, reign, or rule, the active governance of a king.
English “kingdom” can suggest a territory, while βασιλεία names the rule itself. Here, that governance is shown in motion through teaching, proclamation, and healing among the people.
ALSO GROWS
basileus: King, ruler.
βασιλεύς
The king is the source of the rule Jesus announces.
basileuō: To be king, reign, or rule.
βασιλεύω
This verb makes the family’s sense of active governance explicit.
θεραπεύων
therapeuōn
GROWS FROM
θεραπεύω (therapeuō), with the stem θεραπευ- (therapeu-)
To attend to, care for, or treat; also, to heal.
English “healing” foregrounds the result; the Greek verb can also mean attending to or caring for someone. The verse places that care within the same movement as public teaching, extending it across sickness and disease.
ALSO GROWS
therapeia: Attendance, service, or healing.
θεραπεία
This related noun makes the attentive work within healing visible.
therapeutēs: One who attends or serves.
θεραπευτής
The related word carries the sense of care toward another that also lives in the healing verb.
κηρύσσων
kēryssōn
GROWS FROM
κηρύσσω (kēryssō), with the stem κηρυκ- (kēryk-)
To proclaim publicly as a herald.
“preaching” in this verse is kēryssōn. The verse presents the gospel as a public announcement of God’s governance, not only as private instruction. Its announcement travels through cities and villages alongside care that reaches the sick.
ALSO GROWS
kēryx: A public messenger or announcer.
κῆρυξ
The herald gives the verb its public, outward-facing character.
kērygma: An announcement or message proclaimed.
κήρυγμα
This related noun shows that what Jesus preaches is an announcement carried into public life.
THE PATTERN
The announcement of God’s reign becomes visible through teaching and care that restores people.
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.THE THREAD
And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.Mark uses the same Greek words for “kingdom” and “gospel” that Matthew 9:35 names. It says this governance is at hand; Matthew shows its announcement arriving among the people with healing.
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