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Luke 14:2

And look, there was before him a certain man that had the dropsy.

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

Christian Standard Bible®
There in front of him was a man whose body was swollen with fluid.
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.
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

1 And it came to pass, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him. 2 And look, there was before him a certain man that had the dropsy. 3 And Jesus answering spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not? 4 But they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go. 5 And he said to them, Which of you shall have a son or an ox fallen into a well, and will not immediately draw him up on a Sabbath day? 6 And they could not answer again to these things.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 10:19
And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, to Lasha.
Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
Genesis 14:9
against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.
Genesis 14:10
Now the valley of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those that remained fled to the mountain.
Genesis 14:20
and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand. And he gave him a tenth of all.
Deuteronomy 29:23
[and that] the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
Deuteronomy 34:3
and the South, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm-trees, to Zoar.
1 Samuel 13:18
and another company turned the way to Beth-horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looks down on the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
Nehemiah 11:34
Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
Isaiah 15:5
My heart cries out for Moab; her nobles [flee] to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishi-yah: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.

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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