Luke 5:18

18 And beholde me brought a man lyinge in his beed which was taken with a palsie: and sought meanes to brynge him in and to laye him before him.

Luke 5:18 Meaning and 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).

Luke 5:18 In-Context

16 And he kepte him silfe aparte in ye wildernesses and gave him silfe to prayer.

17 And it happened on a certayne daye that he taught: and ther sate the pharises: and docturs of lawe which were come out of all ye tounes of Galile Iurie and Hierusalem. And the power of the Lorde was to heale the.

18 And beholde me brought a man lyinge in his beed which was taken with a palsie: and sought meanes to brynge him in and to laye him before him.

19 And whe they coulde not finde by what waye they might bringe him in be cause of ye prease they wet vp on the toppe of ye housse and let him doune thorowe the tylinge beed and all in the middes before Iesus.

20 When he sawe their fayth he sayde vnto him: man thy synnes are forgeven the.