What Does Luke 22:67 Mean?
Are you the Anointed One? Tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you, you will not trust.
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.
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King James Version
Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you, ye will not believe:THE KEY
A demand for certainty cannot make someone trust the answer when refusal is already settled.
THE MEANING
A demand for an answer can coexist with a settled refusal to trust it. More information alone does not create trust; a person can hear a direct answer and still reject it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that one more explanation will always resolve doubt.
THE ROOT
πιστεύσητε
pisteusēte
GROWS FROM
πιστ-
pist-
Trust, confidence, or reliability.
The form translated “believe” comes from πιστεύω (pisteuō), meaning to trust or place confidence. Its family connects belief with trust and reliability, showing that the issue is not simply hearing the right title but receiving the speaker’s words as trustworthy.
ALSO GROWS
pistis: Trust, confidence
πίστις
This related noun brings out the trust at stake beneath the question for an answer.
pistos: Firm, steady; trustworthy
πιστός
This branch links trust with being reliable, clarifying what the questioners refuse to grant Jesus’s words.
Χριστός
Christos
GROWS FROM
χρίω (chriō), χριστ- (christ-)
Anoint; Χριστός means anointed one.
The title names the anointed one, from the verb for anointing. The exchange moves from asking for a title to exposing whether the answer will be trusted.
ALSO GROWS
chriō: To anoint
χρίω
The verb shows the action carried in the title “Christ.”
chrisma: Anointing
χρῖσμα
This related noun makes the title’s connection to anointing visible.
THE PATTERN
A clear word or sign can be present without producing trust; reception is not compelled.
And he said, Go, and say to this people, Hear and hear again, but do not discern; see and see again, but do not perceive.But though he had done so many signs before them, they did not lean their weight on him.And some were persuaded by what was spoken, and others would not lean their weight upon it.THE THREAD
And whoever lives and leans their weight into me will never die for the ages. Do you trust this?The same Greek verb πιστεύω (pisteuō), “to trust,” is at stake in both verses. Here the title question opens onto a deeper question: whether the words about life are trusted.
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