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Luke 5:19 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 19. 19And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.
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Quick Meaning
Luke 5:19 supplies Luke 5:19's own evidence for “Forgiveness and Healing Reach a Lowered Man”: “And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his…”.
Read It With
- Luke 5:17–5:26
Read Luke 5:19 with 5:17–5:26. In isolation, this contribution—supplies Luke 5:19's own evidence for “Forgiveness and Healing Reach a Lowered Man”: “And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his…”—can be detached from its speaker, audience, scene or teaching sequence, and outcome. The complete unit establishes: Friends lower a paralyzed man through a roof; Jesus declares sins forgiven, answers scribal reasoning, commands the man to rise, and the restored man departs praising God.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Luke 5:19 supplies Luke 5:19's own evidence for “Forgiveness and Healing Reach a Lowered Man”: “And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his…”. This precise contribution belongs inside “Forgiveness and Healing Reach a Lowered Man” because Friends lower a paralyzed man through a roof; Jesus declares sins forgiven, answers scribal reasoning, commands the man to rise, and the restored man departs praising God.
What Remains True
Luke 5:19 supplies Luke 5:19's own evidence for “Forgiveness and Healing Reach a Lowered Man”: “And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his…”. Read inside Luke 5:17–5:26, this contribution supports the unit's proportionate truth: Friends lower a paralyzed man through a roof; Jesus declares sins forgiven, answers scribal reasoning, commands the man to rise, and the restored man departs praising God. Its use remains accountable to affected people and the unit's explicit boundary.
How It Can Shape Life
- Luke 5:19 supplies Luke 5:19's own evidence for “Forgiveness and Healing Reach a Lowered Man”: “And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his…”. Its faithful response is proportionate to that role: Remove barriers that keep disabled people from care, and hold forgiveness beside bodily support without blaming a condition on personal sin or promising identical outcomes.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Luke 5:17–5:26 — Forgiveness and Healing Reach a Lowered ManSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and coverage.
Exact location: Luke 5:17–5:26, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and sentence relations; the edition is not treated as a complete apparatus.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT official repository, data/sblgnt/text/Luke.txt, 5:17–5:26
Open the Luke Greek text file ↗open translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Luke
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, KJV-language clarification, historical notes, Synoptic parallels, and textual alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Luke PDF, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to Luke 5:17–5:26
Open source ↗