Mark 2:11
9 “Which is easier: to say to a paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, pick up your mat, and walk’?
10 But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins...” He said to the paralytic,
“I tell you, get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”
12 And immediately the man got up, picked up his mat, and walked out in front of them all. As a result, they were all astounded and glorified God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”
13 Once again Jesus went out beside the sea. All the people came to Him, and He taught them there.
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
- “I tell you, get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”
- KJV
- I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.
- WEB
- “I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house.”
- ASV
- I say unto thee, Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thy house.
- DARBY
- To thee I say, Arise, take up thy couch and go to thine house.
- BLB
- “I say to you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house.”
- ÅB
- Jeg sier deg: Stå opp og ta din seng og gå hjem til ditt hus!
- OTB
- "Jeg sier deg, stå opp, ta matten din og gå hjem."
- B1930
- Jeg sier dig: Stå op og ta din seng og gå hjem til ditt hus!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Mark 1:41
Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!”
Read in contextJohn 5:8–10
Then Jesus told him, “Get up, pick up your mat, and walk.”
Read in contextJohn 6:63
The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
Read in context