Luke 5:18-26 NASB,NASB

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 5:17-26

Here is, I. A general account of Christ's preaching and miracles, Luke 5:17. 1. He was teaching on a certain day, not on the sabbath day, then he would have said so, but on a week-day; six days shalt thou labour, not only for the world, but for the soul, and the welfare of that. Preaching and hearing the word of God are good works, if they be done well, any day in the week, as well as on sabbath days. It was not in the synagogue, but in a private house; for even there where we ordinarily... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 5:18-26

5:18-26 Now--look you--there came men bearing on a bed a man who was paralysed, and they were trying to carry him in and to lay him before Jesus. When they could find no way to carry him in because of the crowd they climbed up on to the roof and they let him down, bed and all, through the tiles right into the middle of them in front of Jesus. When Jesus saw their faith, he said, "Man, your sins are forgiven you." The scribes and Pharisees began to raise questions. "Who," they said, "is this... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:18

And behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy ,.... Four men brought him, as Mark says, Mark 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 Mark 2:3 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:19

And when they could not find by what way ,.... As by the door, or in at a window of the house: they might bring him in ; to Jesus, in the house: because of the multitude ; which was about the door, and all the fore part of the house: they went upon the housetop ; by a ladder, or pair of stairs, which usually were on the outside of houses; See Gill on Matthew 24:17 the houses of the Jews being flat roofed: and let him down through the tiling with his couch , into the midst... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:20

And when he saw their faith ,.... That is, Jesus, as the Syriac and Persic versions express it; when he saw the faith both of the paralytic man, and of the men that brought him, which was shown in the pains they took, and trouble they were at, in getting him to him; he said unto him . The Vulgate Latin only reads, "he said"; but the Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions, still more fully express the sense, rendering it, "he said to the paralytic man"; and the Ethiopic version, "he said to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:21

And the Scribes and the Pharisees began to reason ,.... To think and say within themselves, and it may be to one another, in a private manner: saying, who is this which speaketh blasphemies ? what vain boaster, and blaspheming creature is this, who assumes that to himself, which is the prerogative of God? Who can forgive sins but God alone ? against whom they are committed, whose law is transgressed, and his will disobeyed, and his justice injured and affronted. Certain it is, that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:22

But when Jesus perceived their thoughts ,.... Being God omniscient; he answering said unto them, what reason ye in your hearts ? This he said, not as being ignorant what their reasonings were, for it is before said he perceived their thoughts, but to expose the wickedness of them; in one exemplar of Beza's it is added, "evil things", as in Matthew 9:4 . See Gill on Matthew 9:4 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:23

Whether is it easier to say ,.... Mark adds, "to the sick of the palsy"; to whom Christ had said that his sins were forgiven him, which had given offence to the Scribes and Pharisees, imagining that he had assumed too much to himself: wherefore he proposes the following case to them, which they thought was most easy for man, or more proper and peculiar to God to say, thy sins be forgiven thee, or to say, rise up and walk ? Neither of them could be said by a mere man, with effect, so as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:24

But that ye may know, that the son of man ,.... Whom the Scribes and Pharisees took for a mere man, in which they were mistaken; for though he was really a man, and the son of man, yet he was God as well as man; he was God manifest in the flesh: hath power upon earth to forgive sins ; even in the days of his flesh, whilst he was in his humble form on earth; for he did not cease to be God by becoming man, nor lose any branch of his power, not this of forgiving sin, by appearing in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:25

And immediately he rose up before them ,.... As soon as ever these words were spoken by Christ, the man, before sick of the palsy, finding himself perfectly well, got off of his couch, and stood up on his feet before the Scribes and Pharisees, and all the people: and took up that whereon he lay ; his couch, or bed: and departed to his own house; with it upon his back: "and went to his business", as the Persic version renders it: glorifying God ; both for the healing of his body, and... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 5:17-26

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 5:18-26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 5:25

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