What Does Luke 5:25 Mean in the King James?
And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The mat does not disappear when healing comes; the one it once carried now carries it.
THE MEANING
He rises where everyone can see, carries the mat he lay on, and returns to his own house. What once bore him now moves in his hands, and his restored movement gives weight to God.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that healing must erase every trace of what confined you dissolves here: the mat remains, but its meaning changes from what bears him to what he bears.
THE ROOT
ἀναστάς
anastas
GROWS FROM
ἵστημι
histēmi
Stand, set upright; in ἀνίστημι, rise or stand up.
“rose” in this verse is anastas. Luke uses a form of ἀνίστημι, built on the verb for standing. The same word family names resurrection, so this visible rise echoes the larger scriptural language of rising from death.
ALSO GROWS
histēmi: Stand, set upright.
ἵστημι
This is the base verb within ἀνίστημι: the man’s rising is a movement into an upright, standing state.
anastasis: A rising, resurrection.
ἀνάστασις
The related noun uses the same rise language for resurrection, opening this man’s physical rising into a wider word family of restored life.
δοξάζων
doxazōn
GROWS FROM
δοξ-
dox-
Honor, repute, esteem; in the scriptural pairing with Hebrew kavod, weight.
“glorifying” in this verse is doxazōn. The Greek dox- family speaks of honor and reputation, while its scriptural pairing with Hebrew kavod carries the sense of weight. His visible movement gives God weight in the eyes of those watching: the one who was carried now carries his mat.
ALSO GROWS
doxa: Honor, reputation; weight in the scriptural rendering.
δόξα
The related noun shows the quality his action directs toward God: honor that has weight.
endoxos: Honored, esteemed, glorious.
ἔνδοξος
This related form describes what is held in honor, making the public weight of his praise visible.
THE PATTERN
Restoration turns what marked incapacity into visible movement that gives praise.
To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.THE THREAD
Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.The Greek verb family behind “rose” here also names Jesus rising on the third day. Luke lets one family of words hold both this man’s return to daily movement and the rising that reaches beyond death.
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