What Does Luke 22:69 Mean?
Hereafter shall the Son of Man sit on the right hand of the strength of God.
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King James wording
King James Version
Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.THE KEY
The one called Son of Man is seated at the right hand of God’s power, placing the human within the image of divine rule.
THE MEANING
The Son of Man is shown seated beside God’s power, at the place of authority. The title holds a human figure within that image of rule. The verse presents humanity and divine authority together in one scene.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the assumption that the Son of Man is powerless or excluded from God’s rule: he is seated at the right hand of God’s power.
THE ROOT
δυνάμεως
dynameōs
GROWS FROM
δυν- (dyn-), from δύναμαι (dynamai)
to be able; capacity or ability
“strength” in this verse is dynameōs. The Greek word for power grows from the idea of being able: power is capacity in action. Luke uses this same word family for the life-bearing capacity that overshadows Mary, and here for the power beside which the Son of Man sits.
ALSO GROWS
dynatos: able, capable, powerful
δυνατός
It shares the capacity-root, showing that power names what can act or accomplish.
adynamia: inability, weakness
ἀδυναμία
Its same root with a negating prefix names the absence of capacity, sharpening the contrast in this verse between weakness and God’s power.
THE PATTERN
God’s authority is pictured through the Son of Man at God’s right hand.
A Psalm of David. The LORD says to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I set your enemies as a footstool for your feet.And he said, Look, I see the heavens thrown open, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.Which he worked in the Anointed One, when he raised him from the dead, and seated him at his own right hand in the heavenly places.THE THREAD
And the messenger answered and said to her, The Set-Apart Breath will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore also that set-apart thing born of you will be called the Son of God.The word translated “power” is the same Greek word, δύναμις (dynamis), in both verses. In Luke 1 it names the capacity from which life comes; here that power is the seat beside which the Son of Man sits.
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