What Does Luke 24:7 Mean?
Saying, The Son of Man must be handed over into the hands of those who miss the mark, and be crucified, and on the third day stand up again.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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King James wording
King James Version
Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.THE KEY
“Delivered” means given over, while “rise again” means stand up: the verse moves from another’s grasp to his own standing.
THE MEANING
The Son of Man is handed into sinful hands and crucified; the violence is real and complete. On the third day he rises, so those hands do not own the ending of his story. You meet both realities in one sentence: death is faced without being final.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that being handed into another’s power means being finally possessed by it.
THE ROOT
παραδοθῆναι
paradothēnai
GROWS FROM
δίδωμι
didōmi
To give or grant; with παρά (para, over to) it forms the sense of giving someone over, handing them into another’s keeping.
“handed over” in this verse is paradothēnai. “Delivered” carries the image of being given over into human custody. The same word family can describe what is handed down, so this is a transfer into others’ hands, and the sentence shows that their custody does not end the story.
ALSO GROWS
didōmi: To give or grant.
δίδωμι
This is the core verb inside paradidōmi: the Son of Man is given over into human hands.
paradosis: Something handed down or passed on.
παράδοσις
It shares the paradidōmi word family and makes the image of transfer visible: what passes into another’s hands is not thereby erased.
ἀναστῆναι
anastēnai
GROWS FROM
ἵστημι
histēmi
To stand, set, or establish.
“stand up again” in this verse is anastēnai. The Greek word carries the movement of standing up. Its family includes the word for resurrection, so the verse ends with a rising person, not merely an idea that survives death.
ALSO GROWS
anistēmi: To rise or stand up.
ἀνίστημι
This is the verb family behind “rise again,” giving the ending the concrete image of standing.
anastasis: A rising or resurrection.
ἀνάστασις
The related noun names the same movement as a central idea: rising up from what has brought someone down.
THE PATTERN
Being given over to death is not the same as being held by death; the third day turns the story toward rising.
After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before his face.God raised him up, having loosed the labor pangs of death, for it was not possible for him to be held by it.And that he was buried, and that he has been awakened on the third day according to the writings.THE THREAD
Place these words in your ears, for the Son of Man will be handed over into the hands of humans.“Delivered” translates the same Greek verb family, παραδίδωμι (paradidōmi, to hand over), and again leads directly into “the hands of men.” Luke 24:7 carries that handover through crucifixion and on to rising, showing where human custody ends.
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