What Does Mark 14:10 Mean?
And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests to hand him over to them.
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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 Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them.THE KEY
The Greek verb behind “betray” means “hand over”: the word names the transfer, while Judas’s chosen recipients make it treachery.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks into the present: closeness to a trusted circle does not remove the capacity to hand someone over. Judas, one of the twelve, goes to the chief priests with Jesus as the person he will transfer into their hands.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Belonging among the twelve guarantees loyalty.
THE ROOT
παραδοῦναι
paradounai
GROWS FROM
δίδωμι
didōmi
To give or place something into another’s hands; with παρά (para), the compound παραδίδωμι means to hand over or deliver.
English “betray” foregrounds the breach of trust; the Greek also makes the transfer visible: Jesus is handed over to the chief priests. The same give-root can describe a gift, a sharing, or a handover, while the recipient and purpose reveal what the act means here.
ALSO GROWS
didōmi: To give or grant.
δίδωμι
This is the verb’s underlying seed: Judas gives Jesus over to another party.
dosis: Giving; a gift.
δόσις
The same give-family can name a gift, showing that the root describes transfer while the context reveals its character.
paradosis: A handing down; a tradition.
παράδοσις
This related word pictures what is passed from one hand to another, echoing the handover at the center of the verse.
THE PATTERN
To hand someone over is a transfer whose meaning is disclosed by its recipient and purpose.
But watch for humankind, for they will hand you over to the councils, and they will lash you in their synagogues.For I took from the Lord what I also handed over to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took bread.He who did not spare his own Son, but handed him over for us all, how will he not also favor us with all things along with him?THE THREAD
He who did not spare his own Son, but handed him over for us all, how will he not also favor us with all things along with him?Romans uses the same Greek verb for the Son being handed over “for us all.” The verb names the transfer in both verses; Judas’s purpose and the purpose stated in Romans make the difference visible.
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