What Does Mark 6:30 Mean?
And the sent ones gathered together to Jesus, and told him everything, both what they had done and what they had taught.
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 the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.THE KEY
The apostles are the sent ones, and here their sending includes a return to Jesus with the whole account of what they did and taught.
THE MEANING
Your work and your teaching arrive together before Jesus; neither stands alone in the account. The sent life in this verse has a rhythm of going out, gathering back, and telling what happened.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that being sent means constant outward motion, with no return to bring the work into view.
THE ROOT
ἀπόστολοι
apóstoloi
GROWS FROM
στέλλω
stellō
to send, dispatch
“sent ones” in this verse is apóstoloi. “Apostles” carries the sense of people who are sent out. Here they gather back to Jesus, so their sending includes a return in which their work becomes visible.
ALSO GROWS
apostellō: send out, dispatch
ἀποστέλλω
This verb makes the sending within “apostles” explicit.
apóstolos: envoy, one sent
ἀπόστολος
This is the singular form of the word used for the apostles, naming them by their sending.
apostolē: sending, commission
ἀποστολή
This branch names the act or charge carried by someone who is sent.
ἀπήγγειλαν
apēngeilan
GROWS FROM
ἀγγέλλω
angellō
to announce, report
“Told” belongs to the announcing and reporting word family, which also gives Greek its words for a messenger and a message. The verse brings the sent ones back to Jesus as reporters of the whole work.
ALSO GROWS
ángelos: messenger
ἄγγελος
The messenger carries an announcement, linking the apostles’ report with the work of bearing news.
angelía: message, report
ἀγγελία
This branch names what is conveyed, echoing the account the apostles bring to Jesus.
THE PATTERN
What is carried out in service returns as a full account that can be shared.
And Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the hardship that had found them on the way, and how the LORD snatched them free.Come and hear, all you who stand in awe of God, and I will recount what he has done for my living soul.And when they had arrived and gathered the assembly together, they reported all that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of trust to the nations.THE THREAD
Then Jesus said to them again, Wholeness be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.The Greek word behind “apostles” belongs to the same sending family as “hath sent” here. Mark shows the sent ones gathered back before Jesus; John places sending within a continuing movement from the Father, through Jesus, and outward.
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