What Does Mark 2:13 Mean?
He went out again by the sea, and all the crowd came to him, and he taught 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 he went forth again by the sea side; and all the multitude resorted unto him, and he taught them.THE KEY
The same Greek verb-root carries Jesus outward and the crowd toward him, so teaching begins where their movements meet.
THE MEANING
Jesus goes out beside the sea, and the crowd keeps coming toward him; teaching meets them in that shared movement. The scene speaks now of instruction taking place where people draw near, in the open flow of life.
THE ROOT
ἐξῆλθεν
exēlthen
GROWS FROM
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
to come or go; the prefix supplies the direction, as in going out or going in
“came” in this verse is exēlthen. The Greek ἐξῆλθεν (exēlthen, “went out”) shares the verb-root ἔρχομαι (erchomai, “come or go”) with ἤρχετο (ērcheto, “was coming”), the crowd’s movement toward Jesus. English gives them different verbs, while Greek lets the verse echo with one movement: he goes out, and they come toward him.
ALSO GROWS
erchomai: to come or go
ἔρχομαι
This is the shared verb-root beneath Jesus’ going out and the crowd’s coming toward him.
exerchomai: to go out or come forth
ἐξέρχομαι
This compound names Jesus’ outward movement beside the sea.
eiserchomai: to go in or enter
εἰσέρχομαι
The same verb-root can describe movement inward; here its outward form carries the teaching into the open.
THE PATTERN
The word is spoken where people come near enough to hear, and gathering makes instruction shared.
Especially the day you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn awe of me all the days they live upon the earth, and that they may train their children.Come, children, and hear and respond to me. I train you in the awe of the LORD.And it happened, as the crowd pressed upon him to hear the word of God, that he stood beside the lake of Gennesaret.THE THREAD
And he said to them, "Let us go into the neighboring towns, so that I may herald there also, for this is why I came out."The words translated “went forth” here and “came I forth” there come from ἐξέρχομαι (exerchomai, “go out”). Mark 1:38 connects that outward movement with carrying the message; Mark 2:13 shows people coming toward Jesus as he teaches beside the sea.
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