What Does Mark 15:10 Mean?
For he knew that the chief priests had handed him over out of envy.
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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
For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.THE KEY
The chief priests’ act of handing him over is driven by envy, a hidden motive beneath an outward act.
THE MEANING
The verse exposes envy as the motive beneath handing someone over: what another is seen to possess becomes intolerable. That same narrowing is present wherever comparison turns another’s place into a threat, as though removing the person could restore what is missing.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie is that another’s favor diminishes your own place, and that handing them over can restore it.
THE ROOT
παραδεδώκεισαν
paradedōkeisan
GROWS FROM
δίδωμι
didōmi
to give
“handed over” in this verse is paradedōkeisan. The verb παραδίδωμι is built on δίδωμι: to deliver here is to give over, to transfer someone into another’s hands. The root keeps that transfer in view, while the verse names envy as the force moving it.
ALSO GROWS
didōmi: to give
δίδωμι
This is the root verb inside “had delivered,” making the act a giving over.
paradosis: tradition; something handed down
παράδοσις
This related word uses the same giving-over family for what is transmitted, revealing how the same act of transfer can hand someone over or pass something on.
THE PATTERN
Envy turns another’s distinction into a threat, and what follows is disorder or an attempt to remove the person.
And his brothers envied him, but his father guarded the word.And the father-rulers, burning with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt, but God was with him.For where boiling and strife are, there is no standing still and every base deed.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?“Delivered him up” uses the same Greek verb family as “had delivered him” here. Mark names envy as the motive for the transfer; Romans makes the motive itself central to how the same act is understood.
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