What Does Luke 22:9 Mean?
And they said to him, Where do you want us to prepare?
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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.
King James wording
King James Version
And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare?THE KEY
Preparation is not abstract here: readiness begins by asking where it belongs.
THE MEANING
When readiness is near but its location is unknown, the question is concrete: where is this to be made ready? The place remains open until the one whose will is sought directs it.
THE ROOT
ἑτοιμάσωμεν
hetoimasōmen
GROWS FROM
ἑτοιμ-
hetoim-
Ready; make ready.
“prepare” in this verse is hetoimasōmen. The verb belongs to the Greek word family for readiness, tying the act of preparing to the state of being ready. The question “where?” gives that readiness a concrete place.
ALSO GROWS
hetoimos: ready; prepared
ἕτοιμος
The adjective names the state toward which the act of making ready moves.
hetoimasia: readiness; preparation
ἑτοιμασία
This related noun keeps readiness present as a condition, not only as a task.
THE PATTERN
Readiness takes visible form as a place or provision made ready for someone to enter or receive.
You lay out a table before my face, in full view of those who press me. You make my head rich with oil; my cup is soaked full.In my Father's house are many places to remain. If it were not so, I would have told you, for I go to make ready a place for you.Then the King says to those at his right hand, Come, you who are spoken well of by my Father. Inherit the governance prepared for you since the foundation of the world.THE THREAD
And he will show you a large upper room, already spread. Prepare there.Jesus answers their question of where with a furnished upper room, then uses the same Greek verb: make ready there. The place is named before the work begins.
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