What Does Luke 22:70 Mean?
Then said they all, Are you then the Son of God? And he said unto them, You say that I am.
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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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Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto them, Ye say that I am.THE KEY
He makes the questioners speak the title whose truth they are demanding him to declare.
THE MEANING
The questioners put the title “Son of God” into the open, and Jesus answers, “Ye say that I am.” Their words become part of the testimony they demand; his “I am” leaves the identity before them without retreat. Here, naming itself carries weight.
THE ROOT
λέγετε
legete
GROWS FROM
λέγω
legō
To say, speak, or tell.
The Greek makes “you” explicit and plural: you yourselves say it. The related words for “word” and “reckoning” show how their spoken naming becomes an account they have put into the open.
ALSO GROWS
logos: Word, account, or reason.
λόγος
The title they speak is a word that now stands in the exchange as testimony.
logizomai: Reckon, consider, or account.
λογίζομαι
Their answer is not just sound; it is a claim they have named and must reckon with.
THE PATTERN
A spoken naming can become testimony in the very act of asking for proof.
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any crookedness, or for any falling short, in it he misses the mark; upon the mouth of two witnesses, or upon the mouth of three witnesses, the word shall stand.And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Anointed One, the Son of the living God.Pilate said to him, So you are a king, then? Jesus answered, You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is from the truth hears my voice.THE THREAD
Pilate said to him, So you are a king, then? Jesus answered, You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is from the truth hears my voice.John uses the same Greek verb for “say” when Jesus answers another question about his identity: “Thou sayest that I am a king.” The shared wording makes the questioner’s own naming part of the testimony, and John explicitly connects that testimony with bearing witness to truth.
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