Luke 5:18
16 Yet He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray.
17 One day Jesus was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. People had come from Jerusalem and from every village of Galilee and Judea, and the power of the Lord was present for Him to heal the sick.
Just then some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. They tried to bring him inside to set him before Jesus,
19 but they could not find a way through the crowd. So they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
20 When Jesus saw their faith, He said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Just then some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. They tried to bring him inside to set him before Jesus,
- 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.
- WEB
- Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before Jesus.
- 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.
- DARBY
- And lo, men bringing upon a couch a man who was paralysed; and they sought to bring him in, and put [him] before him.
- BLB
- And behold, men bringing upon a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and to place him before Him.
- ÅB
- se, da kom noen menn som bar en mann på en seng, han var lam; og de søkte å få ham inn og legge ham ned foran ham.
- OTB
- Noen menn kom med en lam mann på en matte og prøvde å legge ham foran Jesus.
- B1930
- se, da kom nogen menn som bar en mann på en seng, han var verkbrudden; og de søkte å få ham inn og legge ham ned foran ham.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 9:2–8
Just then some men brought to Him a paralytic lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven.”
Read in contextMark 2:3–12
Then a paralytic was brought to Him, carried by four men.
Read in contextJohn 5:5–6
One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
Read in contextActs 9:33
There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.
Read in context