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Luke 14:2

There in front of him was a man whose body was swollen with fluid.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Dropsy;   Jesus, the Christ;   Miracles;   Sabbath;   Thompson Chain Reference - Diseases;   Health-Disease;   Miracles;   The Topic Concordance - Sabbath;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Diseases;   Miracles of Christ, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Miracle;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Courage;   Disease;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Heal, Health;   Miracle;   Sabbath;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hospitality;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Dropsy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Luke, Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Matthew, Gospel According to;   Medicine;   Miracles;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Cures;   Discourse;   Disease;   Dropsy;   Imagination;   Israel, Israelite;   Logia;   Sabbath ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Dropsy,;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Dropsy;   Jesus Christ (Part 2 of 2);   Sabbath;  

Parallel Translations

King James Version (1611)
And behold, there was a certaine man before him, which had the dropsie.
King James Version
And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy.
English Standard Version
And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy.
New American Standard Bible
And there in front of Him was a man suffering from edema.
New Century Version
And in front of him was a man with dropsy.
Amplified Bible
And there in front of Him was a man who had dropsy (extreme swelling).
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And there in front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy.
Legacy Standard Bible
And behold, in front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy.
Berean Standard Bible
Right there before Him was a man with dropsy.
Contemporary English Version
All of a sudden a man with swollen legs stood up in front of him.
Complete Jewish Bible
In front of him was a man whose body was swollen with fluid.
Darby Translation
And behold, there was a certain dropsical [man] before him.
Easy-to-Read Version
A man with a bad disease was there in front of him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And beholde, there was a certaine man before him, which had the dropsie.
George Lamsa Translation
And there was a man before him, who had dropsy.
Good News Translation
A man whose legs and arms were swollen came to Jesus,
Lexham English Bible
And behold, a certain man was in front of him, suffering from edema.
Literal Translation
And behold, a certain man was dropsical before Him.
American Standard Version
And behold, there was before him a certain man that had the dropsy.
Bible in Basic English
And a certain man was there who had a disease.
Hebrew Names Version
Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.
International Standard Version
A man whose body was swollen with fluid suddenly appeared in front of him.
Etheridge Translation
And, behold, a certain man who had gathered waters [fn] was before him.
Murdock Translation
And lo, a dropsical man was before him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And beholde, there was a certayne man before hym, which had the dropsie.
English Revised Version
And behold, there was before him a certain man which had the dropsy.
World English Bible
Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And behold there was a certain man before him, who had the dropsy.
Weymouth's New Testament
In front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And lo! a man sijk in the dropesie was bifor hym.
Update Bible Version
And look, there was before him a certain man that had the dropsy.
Webster's Bible Translation
And behold, there was a certain man before him who had the dropsy.
New English Translation
There right in front of him was a man suffering from dropsy.
New King James Version
And behold, there was a certain man before Him who had dropsy.
New Living Translation
There was a man there whose arms and legs were swollen.
New Life Bible
A man who had very large arms and legs because of a sickness was put before Jesus.
New Revised Standard
Just then, in front of him, there was a man who had dropsy.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And lo! there was, a certain man, who had the dropsy, before him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And behold, there was a certain man before him that had the dropsy.
Revised Standard Version
And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And beholde ther was a man before him which had the dropsye.
Young's Literal Translation
and lo, there was a certain dropsical man before him;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And beholde, there was a ma before him, which had ye dropsye.
Mace New Testament (1729)
now there happen'd to be a man just by him, who had a dropsy.
Simplified Cowboy Version
A man approached Jesus who had arms and legs that were swollen up like a bloated cow.

Contextual Overview

1One Sabbath, when he went in to eat at the house of one of the leading Pharisees, they were watching him closely. 2There in front of him was a man whose body was swollen with fluid. 3In response, Jesus asked the law experts and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?” 4But they kept silent. He took the man, healed him, and sent him away. 5And to them, he said, “Which of you whose son or ox falls into a well, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?” 6They could find no answer to these things.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 10:19
The Canaanite border went from Sidon going toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and going toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim as far as Lasha.
Genesis 13:10
Lot looked out and saw that the entire plain of the Jordan as far as Zoar was well watered everywhere like the Lord’s garden and the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
Genesis 14:9
against King Chedorlaomer of Elam, King Tidal of Goiim, King Amraphel of Shinar, and King Arioch of Ellasar—four kings against five.
Genesis 14:10
Now the Siddim Valley contained many asphalt pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, but the rest fled to the mountains.
Genesis 14:20
and blessed be God Most Highwho has handed over your enemies to you.
Deuteronomy 29:23
All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in his fierce anger.
Deuteronomy 34:3
the Negev, and the plain in the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar.
1 Samuel 13:18
The next division headed toward the Beth-horon road, and the last division headed down the border road that looks out over the Zeboim Valley toward the wilderness.
Nehemiah 11:34
Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
Isaiah 15:5
My heart cries out over Moab,whose fugitives flee as far as Zoar,to Eglath-shelishiyah;they go up the Ascent of Luhith weeping;they raise a cry of destructionon the road to Horonaim.

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!


 
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