{"id":898,"date":"2012-02-13T08:25:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T12:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?p=898"},"modified":"2012-02-13T08:25:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T12:25:25","slug":"why-did-jesus-tell-the-man-to-take-up-thy-bed-and-walk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?page_id=898","title":{"rendered":"Why did Jesus tell the man to &#8220;take up thy bed and walk&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong> <strong>In Luke 5:19, why did Jesus tell the man that was brought to him by way of the roof to &#8220;take up thy bed and go home?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> Luke 5:19 parallels with Mar.2:9.\u00a0 It is the same incident recorded by two different authors.\u00a0 The focus should not be on why Jesus told him to go home, but on the reason Jesus told him <strong>to take up his bed and leave<\/strong>.\u00a0 Jesus told the man that his <strong>sins were forgiven<\/strong>.\u00a0 Then the\u00a0Scribes and Pharisees questioned why he was blaspheming, because only God could forgive sins.\u00a0 Jesus told them that it really doesn&#8217;t matter whether he said take they bed and walk or thy sins be forgiven.\u00a0 Either way, because Jesus is God, he have the authority to heal men on the Sabbath Day and to forgive men for their sins, both in heaven and in earth.\u00a0 Jesus had already told the man he was forgiven for his sins, now he was just telling him that he was healed and to leave under his own power.\u00a0 Either way he was signifying that he was God.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: In Luke 5:19, why did Jesus tell the man that was brought to him by way of the roof to &#8220;take up thy bed and go home?&#8221; Answer: Luke 5:19 parallels with Mar.2:9.\u00a0 It is the same incident recorded by two different authors.\u00a0 The focus should not be on why Jesus told him to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-898","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/898\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}