Luke 5:23 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 5:23

Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk?’

BSB

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ASV

Which is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to say, Arise and walk?

KJV

Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?

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Commentary

1 voice

Bede

On the Gospel of Luke (735)

What is easier to say, "Your sins are forgiven," or to say, "Rise and walk"? Whether the paralytic's sins were forgiven, only He who forgives them knows. But "rise and walk," both he who rises and those who see him rising can confirm. Therefore, a …

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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

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
τί	ti	Which	G5101 →
ἐστιν	estin	is	G1510 →
εὐκοπώτερον,	eukopōteron	easier,	G2123 →
εἰπεῖν·	eipein	to say;	G2036 →
ἀφέωνταί	apheōntai	Have been forgiven	G863 →
σοι	soi	you	G4771 →
αἱ	hai	the	G3588 →
ἁμαρτίαι	hamartiai	sins	G266 →
σου,	sou	of you,	G4771 →
ἢ	ē	or	G2228 →
εἰπεῖν·	eipein	to say;	G2036 →
ἔγειρε	egeire	do arise	G1453 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
περιπάτει;	peripatei	do walk?	G4043 →

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 walk7

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
Matthew 9:5
Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk?’
leads to
- John 5:8–14
  Then Jesus told him, “Get up, pick up your mat, and walk.”
- Mark 2:9–12
  “Which is easier: to say to a paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, pick up your mat, and walk’?
- Acts 3:16
  By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know has been made strong. It is Jesus’ name and the faith that comes through Him that has given him this…
- Luke 5:23–25
  Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk?’
- Acts 14:8–11
  In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.
Through
Mark 2:9
“Which is easier: to say to a paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, pick up your mat, and walk’?
leads to
- Luke 5:22–25
  Knowing what they were thinking, Jesus replied, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?
- Matthew 9:5
  Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk?’

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Luke

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Luke