What Does Luke 4:15 Mean?
And he taught in their synagogues, and all gave weight to him.
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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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King James Version
And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.THE KEY
The honor here is weight made public: the people recognize what they perceive in him and give it a name.
THE MEANING
His teaching reaches you with weight, and the people recognize that weight by honoring him. Their acclaim names what they encounter in him; it does not add substance to him.
THE ROOT
δοξαζόμενος
doxazomenos
GROWS FROM
δοξ-
dox-
Honor and reputation, the recognized weight or standing of someone.
“gave weight to him” in this verse is doxazomenos. The verb belongs to the same word family as δόξα (doxa, honor or reputation), joining what people perceive in him to the public honor they give him. “Glorified” holds both together: his weight is recognized, and that recognition becomes his standing among them.
ALSO GROWS
doxa: Honor, reputation, glory
δόξα
This noun names the recognition that the people give him in the verse.
endoxos: Honorable, held in esteem
ἔνδοξος
This related form makes the shared idea visible: recognized worth becomes public standing.
THE PATTERN
Teaching that carries authority becomes recognizable to its hearers and draws public acknowledgment.
Guard them therefore and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, who will hear all these statutes and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these words, that the crowds were struck out of themselves at his teaching. For he taught them as one who holds authority, and not as their letter-writers.The officers answered, Never has a man spoken as this man has.THE THREAD
For they loved the weight from humankind more than the weight of God.Luke’s “glorified” and John’s “praise” come from the same Greek word family: δόξα (doxa, honor or reputation) names the public weight people give. John adds a sharp edge: human acclaim can become something people prize above God’s praise.
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