What Does Mark 11:19 Mean?
And when it grew late, he went out of the city.
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 when even was come, he went out of the city.THE KEY
Evening marks a real boundary in Jesus’ public movement: as the day closes, he leaves the city.
THE MEANING
The verse holds Jesus’ presence in the city together with his departure from it. His movement has a rhythm, and evening is one of its clear thresholds.
THE ROOT
ἐξεπορεύετο
exeporeueto
GROWS FROM
πορεύομαι
poreuomai
to go, proceed, or journey
“went out” in this verse is exeporeueto. This verb belongs to a word family for going along a course and for going out from somewhere. Here the movement is literal: Jesus leaves the city as evening comes; the verb itself does not say why.
ALSO GROWS
poreia: journey, course of travel
πορεία
It shows the movement in “went” as travel along a way, not simply a change of location.
ekporeuomai: go out, proceed forth
ἐκπορεύομαι
The same word family describes things that “come out” in Mark 7:15, where the Greek speaks of what issues from within; English renders the direction according to the scene.
THE PATTERN
Scripture marks the day’s rhythm through changing movement: work reaches evening, and departure comes at the day’s thresholds.
A person goes out to his work and his labor until evening.And in the morning, while it was still dark, rising long before day, he went out and went away to an empty place, and there he prayed.THE THREAD
And in the morning, while it was still dark, rising long before day, he went out and went away to an empty place, and there he prayed.Mark 11:19 places Jesus’ departure at evening; Mark 1:35 shows him going out before daybreak. Together they frame his movement by the day’s thresholds, while each verse leaves the departure concrete.
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