What Does Luke 24:47 Mean?
And that turning and release from missing the mark should be proclaimed in his nature among all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
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 that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.THE KEY
The proclamation joins turning with release: what misses the mark can be let go in the nature of the one whose name is spoken.
THE MEANING
Turning and release are held together: the direction changes, and what misses the mark is let go. This message reaches every people in his nature, beginning at Jerusalem.
THE ROOT
ἄφεσιν
aphesin
GROWS FROM
ἀφίημι
aphiēmi
Release, send away, let go.
“Remission” carries the sense of release: the missing is let go rather than made a permanent name. In Luke 4:18, this same word names liberty for captives, joining release from sin with freedom from bondage.
ALSO GROWS
aphiēmi: Release, let go, send away.
ἀφίημι
This related verb makes remission an act of letting go.
aphesis: Release, remission, liberty.
ἄφεσις
The same noun names release for captives in Luke 4:18, linking forgiveness with freedom.
ἁμαρτιῶν
hamartiōn
GROWS FROM
ἁμαρτάνω
hamartanō
To miss, fail to reach, or go astray.
“missing the mark” in this verse is hamartiōn. The English “sins” can sound like a sealed inventory of offenses; the root sense of missing opens it as a departure from the mark. Paired with release, the verse speaks of that missing as something that can be let go.
ALSO GROWS
hamartia: Missing; a miss or error.
ἁμαρτία
The related noun presents sin as missing the mark, rather than as a separate identity.
hamartanō: To miss, err, or do wrong.
ἁμαρτάνω
The verb presents missing as something met here with a turn and release.
μετάνοιαν
metanoian
GROWS FROM
μετανοέω
metanoeō
To turn or change the mind; a reorientation.
“turning” in this verse is metanoian. “Repentance” carries a turn in thought and direction, not simply sorrow or a label of regret. Beside release, it names movement away from the miss together with the letting go of it.
ALSO GROWS
metanoeō: Turn; change one’s mind.
μετανοέω
This related verb gives the noun’s turning an active direction.
metanoia: Turning; a change of mind.
μετάνοια
This is the noun form in the verse; paired with remission, it holds turning and release together.
THE PATTERN
Turning toward God is joined to release from what misses the mark, and this message reaches beyond one people.
Let the wicked leave his way, and the man of crookedness his plans. Let him turn back to the LORD, and he will have compassion on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly release.As far as the east is from the west, so far he puts our rebellions from us.Then Peter said to them, Turn, and be immersed, every one of you, in the nature of Jesus, the Anointed One, for the release of your shortcomings, and you will take hold of the gift of the Set-Apart Breath.THE THREAD
The breath of the LORD is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the emptied. He has sent me to heal the shattered in heart, to herald release to the captives, and the return of sight for the blind, to send the crushed away into release.The same Greek noun ἄφεσις (aphesis, release) translated “remission” here is rendered “deliverance” and “liberty” in Luke 4:18. One word joins release from missing with freedom for captives.
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