Mark 2:11
11 "I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home."
Other Translations of Mark 2:11
King James Version
11 I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.
English Standard Version
11 "I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home."
The Message
11 "Get up. Pick up your stretcher and go home."
New King James Version
11 I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house."
New Living Translation
11 "Stand up, pick up your mat, and go home!"
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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Mark 2:11
Commentary on Mark 2:1-12
(Read Mark 2:1-12)
It was this man's misery that he needed to be so carried, and shows the suffering state of human life; it was kind of those who so carried him, and teaches the compassion that should be in men, toward their fellow-creatures in distress. True faith and strong faith may work in various ways; but it shall be accepted and approved by Jesus Christ. Sin is the cause of all our pains and sicknesses. The way to remove the effect, is to take away the cause. Pardon of sin strikes at the root of all diseases. Christ proved his power to forgive sin, by showing his power to cure the man sick of the palsy. And his curing diseases was a figure of his pardoning sin, for sin is the disease of the soul; when it is pardoned, it is healed. When we see what Christ does in healing souls, we must own that we never saw the like. Most men think themselves whole; they feel no need of a physician, therefore despise or neglect Christ and his gospel. But the convinced, humbled sinner, who despairs of all help, excepting from the Saviour, will show his faith by applying to him without delay.