the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19
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THE MESSAGE
Luke 14:2
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There in front of him was a man whose body was swollen with fluid.
And behold, there was a certaine man before him, which had the dropsie.
And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy.
And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy.
And there in front of Him was a man suffering from edema.
And in front of him was a man with dropsy.
And there in front of Him was a man who had dropsy (extreme swelling).
And there in front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy.
And behold, in front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy.
Right there before Him was a man with dropsy.
All of a sudden a man with swollen legs stood up in front of him.
In front of him was a man whose body was swollen with fluid.
And behold, there was a certain dropsical [man] before him.
A man with a bad disease was there in front of him.
And beholde, there was a certaine man before him, which had the dropsie.
And there was a man before him, who had dropsy.
A man whose legs and arms were swollen came to Jesus,
And behold, a certain man was in front of him, suffering from edema.
And behold, a certain man was dropsical before Him.
And behold, there was before him a certain man that had the dropsy.
And a certain man was there who had a disease.
Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.
A man whose body was swollen with fluid suddenly appeared in front of him.
And, behold, a certain man who had gathered waters [fn] was before him.
And lo, a dropsical man was before him.
And beholde, there was a certayne man before hym, which had the dropsie.
And behold, there was before him a certain man which had the dropsy.
Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.
And behold there was a certain man before him, who had the dropsy.
In front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy.
And lo! a man sijk in the dropesie was bifor hym.
And look, there was before him a certain man that had the dropsy.
And behold, there was a certain man before him who had the dropsy.
There right in front of him was a man suffering from dropsy.
And behold, there was a certain man before Him who had dropsy.
There was a man there whose arms and legs were swollen.
A man who had very large arms and legs because of a sickness was put before Jesus.
Just then, in front of him, there was a man who had dropsy.
And lo! there was, a certain man, who had the dropsy, before him.
And behold, there was a certain man before him that had the dropsy.
And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy.
And beholde ther was a man before him which had the dropsye.
and lo, there was a certain dropsical man before him;
And beholde, there was a ma before him, which had ye dropsye.
now there happen'd to be a man just by him, who had a dropsy.
A man approached Jesus who had arms and legs that were swollen up like a bloated cow.
Contextual Overview
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Lot looked. He saw the whole plain of the Jordan spread out, well watered (this was before God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah), like God 's garden, like Egypt, and stretching all the way to Zoar. Lot took the whole plain of the Jordan. Lot set out to the east. That's how they came to part company, uncle and nephew. Abram settled in Canaan; Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent near Sodom. The people of Sodom were evil—flagrant sinners against God . After Lot separated from him, God said to Abram, "Open your eyes, look around. Look north, south, east, and west. Everything you see, the whole land spread out before you, I will give to you and your children forever. I'll make your descendants like dust—counting your descendants will be as impossible as counting the dust of the Earth. So—on your feet, get moving! Walk through the country, its length and breadth; I'm giving it all to you." Abram moved his tent. He went and settled by the Oaks of Mamre in Hebron. There he built an altar to God .
The Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into the tar pits, but the rest escaped into the mountains. The four kings captured all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah, all their food and equipment, and went on their way. They captured Lot, Abram's nephew who was living in Sodom at the time, taking everything he owned with them.
Oh, how I grieve for Moab! Refugees stream to Zoar and then on to Eglath-shelishiyah. Up the slopes of Luhith they weep; on the road to Horonaim they cry their loss. The springs of Nimrim are dried up— grass brown, buds stunted, nothing grows. They leave, carrying all their possessions on their backs, everything they own, Making their way as best they can across Willow Creek to safety. Poignant cries reverberate all through Moab, Gut-wrenching sobs as far as Eglaim, heart-racking sobs all the way to Beer-elim. The banks of the Dibon crest with blood, but God has worse in store for Dibon: A lion—a lion to finish off the fugitives, to clean up whoever's left in the land.
"Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out, and the people in Jahaz will hear the cries. They will hear them all the way from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. Even the waters of Nimrim will be dried up.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And behold, there was a certain man before him,.... Who sat just before him, as he was at table; who either came there of himself, in order to receive a cure; or rather, since it was in a private house, and he at table too, was brought and set there on purpose by the Pharisees, to try whether Christ would heal him on the sabbath day, that they might have somewhat against him; which they doubted not but he would do, knowing his compassionate and beneficent disposition to do good to creatures in distress, whenever he had an opportunity:
which had the dropsy: or "gathered waters", as the Syriac version renders it; was filled with water, which is the nature of that disease, and distinguishes it from what is called the dry dropsy: this disease is a preternatural collection of serum, or water in some part of the body; or a too great proportion thereof in the blood. The "dropsy" acquires different names, from the different parts it afflicts, or the different parts the waters are collected in; that of the "abdomen", or lower belly, called simply and absolutely "dropsy", is particularly denominated "ascites"; that of the whole habit of the body, "anasarca", or "leucophlegmatia"; that of the head, "hydrocephalus"; that of the scrotum, "hydrocele".---There is also a species of this disease, supposed to be caused instead of water, by a collection of wind, called "tympanites"; and by Hippocrates, the "dry dropsy": we also meet with dropsies of the breast, pericardium, uterus, ovaries, c. The causes of dropsies in general, are whatever may obstruct the serous part of the blood, so as to make it stagnate in the vessels or burst the vessels themselves, so as to let the blood out among the membranes; or weaken and relax the tone of the vessels; or this the blood, and make it watery; or lessen perspiration. These causes are various, viz. sometimes acute diseases, scirrhous tumours of any of the more noble viscera, excessive evacuations, particularly haemorrhages, hard drinking, c. The "ascites", or "water dropsy" of the "abdomen", is the most usual case, and what we particularly call the "dropsy": its symptoms are tumours, first of the feet and legs, and afterwards of the "abdomen." which keep continually growing and if the belly be struck or shook, there is heard a quashing of water: add to this, three other attendants, viz. a dyspnoea, intense thirst, and sparing urine; with which may be numbered heaviness, listlessness, costiveness, a light fever, and an emaciation of the body i. Such we must suppose to be the case of this man, and that he was now in such a condition, as to be thought incurable.
i Chamber's Cyclopaedia on the word "Dropsy".
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A certain man before him - In what way he came there we know not. He might have been one of the Pharisee’s family, or might have been placed there by the Pharisees to see whether he would heal him. This last supposition is not improbable, since it is said in Luke 14:1 that they watched him.
The dropsy - A disease produced by the accumulation of water in various parts of the body; very distressing, and commonly incurable.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Luke 14:2. The dropsy. — υδρωπικος, dropsical; from υδωπ, water, and ωψ, the countenance, because in this disorder the face of the patient is often very much bloated. Probably the insidious Pharisee had brought this dropsical man to the place, not doubting that our Lord's eye would affect his heart, and that he would instantly cure him; and then he could most plausibly accuse him for a breach of the Sabbath. If this were the case, and it is likely, how deep must have been the perfidy and malice of the Pharisee!
