Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

Luke 5:25

ἐφ' ὅ. Altered by copyists into the easier ἐφ' ᾧ.

25. ἐφ' ὃ κατέκειτο. The ἐφ' ᾧ of the Rec[121] is a less common expression. Ἐφ' ὅ is another instance of a prep. of motion with a verb of rest as in ἔστη ἐπὶ τὸν αἰγιαλόν John 21:4; καθίσεσθε ἐπὶ δώδεκα θρόνους Matthew 19:28, and the phrase εἶναι ἐπὶ χθόνα. See Winer, p. 508. This circumstance is emphasized in all three narratives to contrast the man’s previous helplessness, “borne of four,” with his present activity. He now carried the bed which had carried him, and “the proof of his sickness became the proof of his cure.” The labour would have been no more than that of carrying a rug or a cloak, yet it was this which excited the fury of the Pharisees in Jerusalem (John 5:9). The ‘Sabbath-breaking’ involved in the act was not specially attacked by the simpler and less Pharisaic Pharisees of Galilee.

[121] Rec. The Textus Receptus.

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