What Does Luke 22:11 Mean?
And you will say to the master of the house, The teacher says to you, Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my learners?
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?THE KEY
The word for “guestchamber” carries the sense of a place where travelers loosen their hold on the road and settle in to share a meal.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks to you through a direct request: the Master asks where the guest room is because he intends to eat the Passover with his learners. The room becomes the setting where people settle, share a meal, and learn together.
THE ROOT
κατάλυμα
kataluma
GROWS FROM
λύω
λύω (lyō) means to loosen or unbind.
Κατάλυμα (kataluma) means a lodging place or guest room, from καταλύω (katalyō), “to lodge” or literally “to loosen down.” The word family brings loosening into the idea of lodging: a place where travelers settle and are received.
ALSO GROWS
lyō: To loosen or unbind.
λύω
This base verb carries the sense of loosening within the word family for lodging.
katalyō: To lodge or stay; literally, to loosen down.
καταλύω
This verb is the direct family link between loosening and the guest room named in the verse.
kataluma: A lodging place or guest room.
κατάλυμα
The verse uses this word for the place where the Master and his learners will settle to eat.
μαθητῶν
mathētōn
GROWS FROM
μαθ-
μαθ- (math-) carries the sense of learning.
The Greek word μαθητῶν (mathētōn), translated “disciples,” names learners. The meal is shared with people whose identity is still being shaped through learning.
ALSO GROWS
mathētēs: A learner or pupil.
μαθητής
This is the singular form of the word translated “disciples” in the verse.
mathēma: A lesson or something learned.
μάθημα
This related word shows learning as something received and carried from one encounter to the next.
THE PATTERN
A place becomes a setting for encounter when it is opened to receive others.
And he took curds and milk, and the son of the herd which he had made, and set it before them, and stood beside them under the tree, and they ate.And when she was immersed, and her household, she urged us, saying, If you have judged me steady in the Lord, come into my house and stay there. And she pressed us.THE THREAD
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.Luke uses the same Greek word, κατάλυμα (kataluma), for the lodging place here and the “inn” where there is no room at Jesus’ birth. That echo makes the availability of a place to stay part of Luke’s story around Jesus.
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