What Does Luke 19:32 Mean?
And those who had been sent went away, and found it just as he had said to them.
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
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King James Version
And they that were sent went their way, and found even as he had said unto them.THE KEY
The sent ones enter the scene and find it already matching the word that sent them.
THE MEANING
The word spoken to you is met along the path you walk. Those who are sent do not make the colt appear; they find the scene just as it was described.
THE ROOT
ἀπεσταλμένοι
apestalmenoi
GROWS FROM
στελλ-
stell-
To set or prepare, and to dispatch or send; in ἀποστέλλω, to send forth.
The Greek word belongs to the same family as ἀπόστολος (apóstolos), meaning an envoy or one sent. Here, being sent leads directly to finding: the dispatched ones encounter exactly what the word named.
ALSO GROWS
apóstolos: Envoy; one sent
ἀπόστολος
The familiar word “apostle” carries the same sending family as the “sent” ones here.
apostolē: Sending; commission
ἀποστολή
It names the act or charge of sending that sets a person on a path.
THE PATTERN
A word that sets someone in motion is met in the scene that follows.
And it came to pass, before he had finished speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, brother of Abraham, with her jar upon her shoulder.And he arose and went; and behold, an Ethiopian eunuch, an official of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem to bow down.And they went and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.THE THREAD
Then Jesus said to them again, Wholeness be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.“Sent” here and “hath sent me” share the Greek word family ἀποστέλλω (apostellō), meaning to send forth. The connection opens sending as a continuing pattern: the one who finds the scene as spoken is also part of a life passed onward through sending.
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