Luke 5:18 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 5:18

Just then some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. They tried to bring him inside to set him before Jesus,

BSB

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ASV

And behold, men bring on a bed a man that was palsied: and they sought to bring him in, and to lay him before him.

KJV

And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him.

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Commentary

2 voices

Cyril of Alexandria

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (444)

The Scribes and Pharisees who had become spectators of Christ's miracles, heard Him also teaching. Hence it is said, And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees sitting by, &c. And the power of the Lord was present to heal them. Not as though He borrowed the power of another, but as God and the Lord He healed by His own inherent power. Now men often become worthy of spiritual gifts, but generally depart from the rule which the giver of the gifts knew.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy,.... Four men brought him, as Mark says, Mar 2:3 and which the Ethiopic version expresses here: "and they sought means to bring him in": into the house where Jesus was: and to lay him before him; at his feet, in hope of moving his compassion, and to obtain a cure of him: of the nature of this disease, and of the sort which this man's seems to be; see Gill on Mar 2:3.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)

A threefold miracle demands our attention in these verses. At one and the same time, we see our Lord . . . forgiving sins, reading men's thoughts, and healing a paralytic. He who could do such things, and do them with such perfect ease and authority — must indeed be very God. Power like this was never possessed by any man. Let us mark, firstly, in this passage — what pains men will take about an object when they are in earnest. The friends of a paralyzed man desired to bring him to Jesus, that he might be cured.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἰδοὺ	idou	behold	G2400 →
ἄνδρες	andres	men	G435 →
φέροντες	pherontes	carrying	G5342 →
ἐπὶ	epi	upon	G1909 →
κλίνης	klinēs	a mat	G2825 →
ἄνθρωπον	anthrōpon	a man	G444 →
ὃς	hos	who	G3739 →
ἦν	ēn	was	G1510 →
παραλελυμένος,	paralelumenos	paralyzed,	G3886 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐζήτουν	ezētoun	they were seeking	G2212 →
αὐτὸν	auton	him	G846 →
εἰσενεγκεῖν	eisenegkein	to bring in	G1533 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
θεῖναι	theinai	to place	G5087 →
αὐτὸν	auton	him	G846 →
ἐνώπιον	enōpion	before	G1799 →
αὐτοῦ.	autou	Him.	G846 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Acts 9:33
There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.
leads to
- Luke 13:16
  Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”
- Mark 9:21
  Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has this been with him?” “From childhood,” he said.
- Acts 3:2
  And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.
- Acts 14:8
  In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.
- John 5:5
  One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Luke

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Luke