Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Luke 5:25
And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.
25. took up that whereon he lay ] This circumstance is emphasized in all three narratives to contrast his previous helplessness, “borne of four,” with his present activity. He now carried the bed which had carried him, and “the proof of his sickness became the proof of his cure.” The labour would have been no more than that of carrying a rug or a cloak, yet it was this which excited the fury of the Pharisees in Jerusalem (Joh 5:9). It was not specially attacked by the simpler and less Pharisaic Pharisees of Galilee.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
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 for the pardon of his sins; each of which he knew none but God could do. This circumstance is only mentioned by Luke, and shows the sense the man had of the great favours bestowed upon him: he glorified God, by ascribing them to his goodness and power; by offering the sacrifice of praise, or giving thanks unto him for them; by publishing them among his neighbours, to the honour of his name; and by living a holy life and conversation, to his glory, under a grateful sense of his kindness: yea, he glorified Jesus Christ as God, who he knew must be God, by forgiving his sins, and curing his disease; he proclaimed his divine power, and ascribed greatness to him; he confessed him as the Messiah, and owned him as his Saviour, and became subject to him as his Lord.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Whereon he lay (‘ ). Imperfect, upon which he had been lying down. Luke uses this phrase instead of repeating (verse 24).
Glorifying God ( ). As one can well imagine.
Fuente: Robertson’s Word Pictures in the New Testament
1) “And immediately he rose up before them,” (kai parachrema anastas enopioneuton) “And rising up at once, on the spot, as Jesus told him, before them,” before the scribes, Pharisees, and all the witnesses present, even the religious cynics and skeptics of the Jews that had come for that teaching and preaching conference, from every region of Galilee, Judaea, and Jerusalem, Luk 5:17; Mat 9:7.
2) “And took up that whereupon he lay,” (aras eph’ ho katekeito) “Taking up also that on which he was lying,” taking up his couch or bed, in obedience to the Lord, and as an incontestable evidence that he was healed, Mar 2:12. He carried the bed that had carried him. The proof of his affliction became the proof of his healing. Yet this display and testimony of the healed man infuriated the Pharisees, as in Joh 5:9.
3) “And departed to his own house,” (apelthen eis ton oikon autou) “He went out and way into his own home, house, or residence,” Mat 9:7. He was brought to the place carried on a bed, couch, or mattress, but he went away with hallelujah glory, joy, health, and gratitude, carrying his bed with him, not without telling the world what Jesus had done for him, Luk 8:39.
4) “Glorifying God.” (doksazon ton theon) “Praising or continually, repeatedly glorifying God,” as he went, as a testimony to all who had known him as a bedfast paralytic for so long, 1Co 10:31. It was so much like the blind beggar who was healed at Jericho, who having been healed, made to see, praised God, and led others to believe in and praise Him, Luk 18:43; Psa 103:1. The praise testimony of the saved and healed man magnified the miracle, to the glory of God, Joh 20:30-31.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
(25) Glorifying God.The fact that the man himself did this as well as the by-standers is peculiar to St. Luke.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
‘And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that on which he lay, and departed to his house, glorifying God.’
And he did just that. He rose, took up what he was lying on, and went home glorifying God. So having accomplished the harder, Jesus had the right to expect that they would agree about the easier, or at least think about it.
But it is one of the evidences of the hardness of men’s hearts that once they have determined something, they regularly stick to it, however much they might be proved to be wrong. It is in the end the test of the open or closed mind. And the minds of these men were firmly closed. There was no excuse for them. They had asked for proof and they had received it. But it was not really proof that they wanted, but submission to their ideas. Here was one who had made the paralytic walk when they could not. What did it tell the world? It told it that He was from God. But that they could not stomach. Let us not think of these men as sincerely wrong. They had proved themselves totally insincere. They did not want the truth. They only wanted to be acknowledged as right.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
25 And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.
Ver. 25. See Trapp on “ Mat 9:8 “ See Trapp on “ Mar 2:12 “
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Luk 5:25 . ( ), on the spot, instantly; in Lk. only, magnifying the miracle.
Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson
immediately. Greek. parachrema, See Luk 1:64; Luk 4:39. Outside Luke and Acts it occurs only in Mat 21:19, Mat 21:20.
to = into, as in Luk 5:24, above.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Luk 5:25. , having taken up that whereon he lay) A happy expression. The couch had borne the man: now the man was bearing the couch.
Fuente: Gnomon of the New Testament
immediately: Luk 5:13, Gen 1:3, Psa 33:9
glorifying: Luk 13:13, Luk 17:15-18, Luk 18:43, Psa 50:23, Psa 103:1-3, Psa 107:20-22, Joh 9:24
Reciprocal: Mat 9:8 – and Luk 18:14 – went
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Immediately is the important word here. Professed workers of miracles today require patients to have the faith that “holds out” long enough to effect a cure. The true miraculous healing did not call for a prolonged period of time.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
The paralyzed man responded in faith immediately (Gr. parachrema) to Jesus’ command. The stretcher had carried the man, and now the man carried the stretcher.
"The ability of the paralyzed man to resume his walk of life is a picture of what Jesus does when he saves. His message is a liberating one." [Note: Bock, Luke, p. 158.]
Everyone present glorified God because of what Jesus had done. One of Luke’s objectives was to glorify God and to encourage his readers to do the same in this Gospel and in Acts (cf. Luk 2:20). The amazed reaction of the crowd recalls the same response of the people on the day of Pentecost (Act 2:11-12; cf. Luk 7:16; Luk 13:17; Luk 18:43; Act 3:9; Act 8:8). Perhaps Luke meant to draw the reader’s attention to "today," the last word that is also the first word Jesus spoke when He announced the fulfillment of Isa 61:1-2 a (Luk 4:21). The "day" of the Messiah’s appearing had arrived, and the witnesses of this miracle testified to it albeit unknowingly.
Luke’s emphasis in his account of this incident was on Jesus’ authority and the people’s acknowledgment of it. He also stressed Jesus’ ongoing mission (cf. Acts).
"Three quest stories appear early in the narrative of Jesus’ ministry, in Luke 5, 7. Three reappear toward the end of Jesus’ journey to Jerusalem, in Luke 17, 18, , 19. Thus they appear early and late in the narrative of Jesus’ ministry prior to his arrival in Jerusalem. The tendency to bracket Jesus’ ministry with this type of story suggests the importance of these encounters in Jesus’ total activity." [Note: Tannehill, 1:118.]
A quest story is one in which someone approaches Jesus in quest of something very important to human wellbeing. Of the nine quest stories in the Synoptics, seven are in Luke, and four of these are unique to Luke.