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Everyone was taken with amazement and glorified God. They were filled with awe and said, "We have seen remarkable things today."
Study Bible
Everyone was taken with amazement

This phrase captures the immediate reaction of the crowd witnessing Jesus' miraculous healing of the paralytic. The Greek word for "amazement" here can also be translated as "astonishment" or "ecstasy," indicating a profound emotional response. This reaction is consistent with other instances in the Gospels where Jesus performs miracles, such as in Mark 1:27 and Matthew 9:8, where the crowds are similarly amazed. The amazement reflects the divine authority and power of Jesus, which was unprecedented and challenged the religious norms of the time.

Act 3:10 they recognized him as the man who used to sit begging…
Mrk 7:37 The people were utterly astonished and said,…
Luk 9:43 And they were all astonished at the greatness of God.…

and glorified God.

The glorification of God by the crowd highlights the recognition of divine intervention in the miracle. In Jewish culture, giving glory to God was a common response to witnessing His works, as seen in Psalms 86:12 and Isaiah 25:1. This acknowledgment serves as a testament to Jesus' role as the Messiah, fulfilling prophecies such as Isaiah 35:5-6, which speak of the coming of one who will perform miraculous healings. The act of glorifying God also underscores the theological theme that Jesus' miracles were not just acts of compassion but signs pointing to His divine nature and mission.

Mat 15:31 The crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking…
Mat 9:8 When the crowds saw this, they were filled with awe…
Luk 7:16 A sense of awe swept over all of them, and they glorified…

They were filled with awe

The awe experienced by the crowd is indicative of a deep reverence and fear, often associated with encountering the divine. This reaction is similar to the fear and wonder seen in other biblical accounts of divine encounters, such as Moses at the burning bush (Exodus 3:6) and the shepherds at the announcement of Jesus' birth (Luke 2:9). The awe signifies a recognition of the holy and the supernatural, reinforcing the idea that Jesus' actions were not merely human but carried divine significance.

Act 2:43 A sense of awe came over everyone, and the apostles…
Luk 1:65 All their neighbors were filled with awe,…
Act 5:11 And great fear came over the whole church…

and said, “We have seen remarkable things today.”

The declaration of having seen "remarkable things" emphasizes the extraordinary nature of Jesus' miracle. The term "remarkable" can also be translated as "paradoxical" or "unbelievable," suggesting that what they witnessed defied natural explanation. This statement connects to the broader narrative of Jesus' ministry, where His works consistently reveal the Kingdom of God breaking into the world. It also echoes the prophetic anticipation of the Messiah performing signs and wonders, as foretold in passages like Isaiah 61:1-2. The crowd's acknowledgment serves as a witness to the authenticity and authority of Jesus' ministry, inviting others to believe in His message and mission.

Mrk 2:12 And immediately the man got up, picked up his mat…
Mat 9:33 And when the demon had been driven out, the man…
Jhn 9:32 Never before has anyone heard of opening the eyes…

Persons / Places / Events
1. Jesus Christ
The central figure in this passage, performing miracles and teaching with authority.

2. The Paralytic Man
The individual healed by Jesus, whose healing prompted the reaction in verse 26.

3. The Crowd
Witnesses to the miracle, their reaction is one of amazement and glorification of God.

4. Capernaum
The location where this event takes place, a significant site in Jesus' ministry.

5. Pharisees and Teachers of the Law
Present during the event, often skeptical of Jesus' actions and teachings.
Teaching Points
Amazement at God's Work
The crowd's reaction of amazement should remind us to remain in awe of God's power and works in our lives.

Glorifying God
Witnessing God's work should lead us to glorify Him, acknowledging His sovereignty and grace.

Recognizing the Remarkable
We should be attentive to the remarkable things God does daily, not just the miraculous, and respond with gratitude.

Faith in Action
The healing of the paralytic demonstrates the power of faith and the importance of bringing our needs to Jesus.

Community Witness
The event shows the impact of a community witnessing God's power, encouraging us to share our testimonies with others.
Bible Study Questions
1. How does the crowd's reaction in Luke 5:26 challenge us to respond to God's work in our own lives?

2. In what ways can we glorify God in our daily routines, similar to the crowd's response to Jesus' miracle?

3. How can we cultivate a sense of awe and wonder at God's presence and actions in our lives?

4. What are some "remarkable things" God has done in your life that you can share with others to encourage their faith?

5. How does the healing of the paralytic in Luke 5:26 connect with other instances of healing in the Bible, and what can we learn from these connections about God's character?
Connections to Other Scriptures
Mark 2:12
This parallel account also describes the healing of the paralytic and the crowd's reaction, emphasizing the authority of Jesus.

Matthew 9:8
Another parallel account that highlights the crowd's glorification of God after witnessing Jesus' miracle.

Acts 3:9-10
The healing of the lame man by Peter and John, where the crowd is similarly filled with wonder and amazement.

Psalm 118:23
This verse speaks of the Lord's doing being marvelous in our eyes, reflecting the crowd's reaction to Jesus' miracle.
Sermons
The Healing of the Leper and the ParalyticR.M. Edgar Luke 5:12-26
A Mother's Belief that God Would Justify Her Faith for Her Son's ConversionLuke 5:18-26
Carried by FourC. H. Spurgeon.Luke 5:18-26
Christ Can See Through MenH. W. Beecher.Luke 5:18-26
Faith HonouredLuke 5:18-26
Faith's RewardW. Burkitt.Luke 5:18-26
Forgiveness and HealingG. F. Pentecost.Luke 5:18-26
God Interprets PrayersQuesnel.Luke 5:18-26
God's WondersLuke 5:18-26
Jesus' Method of Doing Good Newman Smyth, D. D.Luke 5:18-26
Omniscience of ChristG. T. Coster.Luke 5:18-26
Reflections on the Healing of the ParalyticJames Foote, M. d.Luke 5:18-26
Rejoicing Through ForgivenessMiss Leigh's work in Paris.Luke 5:18-26
Revivals of ReligionJ. M'Lean.Luke 5:18-26
Sixty-Five Years' Sins All ForgivenLuke 5:18-26
Spiritual Uses of AfflictionD. Davies, M. A.Luke 5:18-26
Strange ThingsC. H. Spurgeon.Luke 5:18-26
Strange ThingsC. H. Spurgeon.Luke 5:18-26
The Gospel of ForgivenessEmilius Bayley, B. D.Luke 5:18-26
The Healing of the PalsiedLeonard W. Bacon.Luke 5:18-26
The Healing of the ParalyticJ. Parker, D. D.Luke 5:18-26
The Purpose of Christ's Miracles of HealingLeonard W. Bacon.Luke 5:18-26
The Simplicity of Christ's Method of HealingC. H. Spurgeon.Luke 5:18-26
The StoryS. Cox, D. D.Luke 5:18-26
The Vicarious Nature of FaithA. B. Bruce, D. D.Luke 5:18-26
Two Kinds of WonderC. H. Spurgeon.Luke 5:18-26
Who Can Forgive Sins?R. D. Hitchcock, D. D.Luke 5:18-26
Zeal Will Always Find a Way to Accomplish its PurposeMilner.Luke 5:18-26
People
James, Jesus, John, Levi, Peter, Simon, Zabdi, Zebedee
Places
Galilee, Genneseret, Jerusalem, Judea
Topics
Abiding, Amazed, Amazement, Astonishment, Awe, Fear, Feeling, Filled, Flashed, Full, Glorified, Glorifying, Glory, Hold, Minds, Overcame, Praise, Remarkable, Saying, Seized, Strange, Struck, To-day, Wonder, Yet
Dictionary of Bible Themes
Luke 5:26

     1060   God, greatness of
     5784   amazement
     8334   reverence, and God's nature

Luke 5:17-26

     5162   lameness
     6654   forgiveness, Christ's ministry

Luke 5:18-26

     2012   Christ, authority
     5285   cures

Luke 5:20-26

     6654   forgiveness, Christ's ministry

Luke 5:22-26

     5030   knowledge, of Christ

Luke 5:25-26

     8624   worship, reasons

Library
March 25 Evening
Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing; nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.--LUKE 5:5. All power is give unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: . . . and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea. Though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: necessity is laid …
Anonymous—Daily Light on the Daily Path

March 19. "Launch Out into the Deep" (Luke v. 4).
"Launch out into the deep" (Luke v. 4). Many difficulties and perplexities in connection with our Christian life might be best settled by a simple and bold decision of our will to go forward with the light we have and leave the speculations and theories that we cannot decide for further settlement. What we need is to act, and to act with the best light we have, and as we step out into the present duty and full obedience, many things will be made plain which it is no use waiting to decide. Beloved, …
Rev. A. B. Simpson—Days of Heaven Upon Earth

December 9. "Launch Out into the Deep" (Luke v. 4).
"Launch out into the deep" (Luke v. 4). One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit Of boldness. One of the most essential qualities of the faith that is to attempt great things for God and expect great things from God, is holy audacity. Where we are dealing with a supernatural Being, and taking from Him things that are humanly impossible, it is easier to take much than little; it is easier to stand in a place of audacious trust than in a place of cautious, timid …
Rev. A. B. Simpson—Days of Heaven Upon Earth

Humility
LUKE v. 8. Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord. Few stories in the New Testament are as well known as this. Few go home more deeply to the heart of man. Most simple, most graceful is the story, and yet it has in it depths unfathomable. Great painters have loved to draw, great poets have loved to sing, that scene on the lake of Gennesaret. The clear blue water, land- locked with mountains; the meadows on the shore, gay with their lilies of the field, on which our Lord bade them look, …
Charles Kingsley—Discipline and Other Sermons

Instructions for Fishermen
'Now when He had left speaking, He said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.'--LUKE v. 4. The day's work begins early in the East. So the sun, as it rose above the hills on the other side of the lake, shone down upon a busy scene, fresh with the dew and energy of the morning, on the beach by the little village of Bethsaida. One group of fishermen was washing their nets, their boats being hauled up on the strand. A crowd of listeners was thus early gathered round …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions Of Holy Scripture

Fear and Faith
'When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.' --LUKE v. 8. 'Now, when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him,... and did cast himself into the sea.'--JOHN xxi. 7. These two instances of the miraculous draught of fishes on the Lake of Gennesareth are obviously intended to be taken in conjunction. Their similarities and their differences are equally striking and equally instructive. In the fragment …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions Of Holy Scripture

Blasphemer, or --Who?
'And it came to pass on a certain day, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was present to heal them. 18. And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before Him. 19. And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the house-top, …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions Of Holy Scripture

"The Moody and Sankey Humbug. "
There was a man, while we were in London, who got out a little paper called "The Moody and Sankey Humbug." He used to have it to sell to the people coming into the meeting. After he had sold a great many thousand copies of that number, he wanted to get out another number; so he came to the meeting to get something to put into the paper; but the power of the Lord was present. It says here in this chapter (Luke 5) that the Pharisees, scribes, and doctors, were watching the words of Christ in that house …
Dwight L. Moody—Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations

Absolution.
Preached June 2, 1850. ABSOLUTION. "And the Scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"--Luke v. 21. There are questions which having been again and again settled, still from time to time, present themselves for re-solution; errors which having been refuted, and cut up by the roots, re-appear in the next century as fresh and vigorous as ever. Like the fabled monsters of old, from whose dissevered neck the blood …
Frederick W. Robertson—Sermons Preached at Brighton

Carried by Four
When our Lord left his retirement he found the crowd around him exceeding great, and it was as motley as it was great; for while here were many sincere believers, there were still more sceptical observers; some were anxious to receive his healing power, others equally desirous to find occasion against him. So in all congregations, however the preacher may be clothed with his Master's spirit and his Master's might, there will be a mixed gathering; there will come together your Pharisees and doctors …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871

The Secret of Success.
5th Sunday after Trinity S. Luke v. 5. "We have taken nothing; nevertheless at Thy word, I will let down the net." INTRODUCTION.--S. Peter and the other Apostles had been fishing all night, and had met with no success at all, then Jesus entered into the boat of Simon, and bade him launch out and let down his net. S. Peter did not hesitate. He had met with no success when fishing in the night, nevertheless now, at the word of Christ, he fishes again, and this time the net encloses a great multitude, …
S. Baring-Gould—The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent

Christ the Great Physician.
"They that are whole have no need of a physician; but they that are sick. I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance" (Luke v. 31, 32). "For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them" (Matt. xiii. 15). "He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted" (Luke iv. 18). …
Frank G. Allen—Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel

Jesus, Still Lead On.
"Jesu, geh Voran." "They forsook all, and followed him."--Luke 5:11. [7]Ludwig von Zinzendorf transl., Jane Borthwick, 1846, 1854 Jesus, still lead on, Till our rest be won! And although the way be cheerless, We will follow, calm and fearless. Guide us by thy hand To our Fatherland. If the way be drear, If the foe be near, Let not faithless fears o'ertake us, Let not faith and hope forsake us For, through many a foe, To our home we go! When we seek relief From a long-felt grief-- When oppressed …
Jane Borthwick—Hymns from the Land of Luther

Travelling in Palestine --Roads, Inns, Hospitality, Custom-House Officers, Taxation, Publicans
It was the very busiest road in Palestine, on which the publican Levi Matthew sat at the receipt of "custom," when our Lord called him to the fellowship of the Gospel, and he then made that great feast to which he invited his fellow-publicans, that they also might see and hear Him in Whom he had found life and peace (Luke 5:29). For, it was the only truly international road of all those which passed through Palestine; indeed, it formed one of the great highways of the world's commerce. At the time …
Alfred Edersheim—Sketches of Jewish Social Life

Penitence, as Explained in the Sophistical Jargon of the Schoolmen, Widely Different from the Purity Required by the Gospel. Of Confession and Satisfaction.
1. Errors of the Schoolmen in delivering the doctrine of repentance. 1. Errors in defining it. Four different definitions considered. 2. Absurd division. 3. Vain and puzzling questions. 4. Mode in which they entangle themselves. 2. The false doctrine of the Schoolmen necessary to be refuted. Of contrition. Their view of it examined. 3. True and genuine contrition. 4. Auricular confession. Whether or not of divine authority. Arguments of Canonists and Schoolmen. Allegorical argument founded on Judaism. …
John Calvin—The Institutes of the Christian Religion

Seventh Appearance of Jesus.
(Sea of Galilee.) ^D John XXI. 1-25. ^d 1 After these things Jesus manifested himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and he manifested himself on this wise. 2 There was together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee [see p. 111], and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples. 3 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. [As usual, Peter was the leader.] They say unto him, We also come with thee. They went forth, and entered into the boat; …
J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel

Jesus Heals a Leper and Creates Much Excitement.
^A Matt.VIII. 2-4; ^B Mark I. 40-45; ^C Luke V. 12-16. ^c 12 And it came to pass, while he was in one of the cities [it was a city of Galilee, but as it was not named, it is idle to conjecture which city it was], behold, ^b there cometh { ^a came} ^b to him a leper [There is much discussion as to what is here meant by leprosy. Two diseases now go by that name; viz., psoriasis and elephantiasis. There are also three varieties of psoriasis, namely, white, black and red. There are also three varieties …
J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel

The Disciples of Jesus.
In this terrestrial paradise, which the great revolutions of history had till then scarcely touched, there lived a population in perfect harmony with the country itself, active, honest, joyous, and tender-hearted. The Lake of Tiberias is one of the best supplied with fish of any in the world.[1] Very productive fisheries were established, especially at Bethsaida, and at Capernaum, and had produced a certain degree of wealth. These families of fishermen formed a gentle and peaceable society, extending …
Ernest Renan—The Life of Jesus

The Conflict with Evil
The Kingdom of God Will Have to Fight for Its Advance The great objective is the Kingdom of God. In realizing the Reign of God on earth three recalcitrant forces have to be brought into obedience to God's law: the desire for power, the love of property, and unsocial religion. We have studied Christ's thought concerning these in the foregoing chapters. The advance of the Kingdom of God is not simply a process of social education, but a conflict with hostile forces which resist, neutralize, and defy …
Walter Rauschenbusch—The Social Principles of Jesus

The Lake of Gennesaret; Or, the Sea of Galilee and Tiberias.
Jordan is measured at one hundred and twenty furlongs, from the lake of Samochonitis to that of Gennesaret. That lake, in the Old Testament, is 'The sea of Chinnereth,' Numbers 34:11, &c. In the Targumists, 'The sea of Genesar'; sometimes, 'of Genesor'; sometimes, 'of Ginosar': it is the same also in the Talmudists, but most frequently 'The sea of Tiberiah.' Both names are used by the evangelists; 'the lake of Gennesaret,' Luke 5:1; 'the sea of Tiberias,' John 21:1; and 'the sea of Galilee,' John …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica

Peter's Repentance
"And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out, and wept bitterly" (Luke 22:61, 62). That was the turning-point in the history of Peter. Christ had said to him: "Thou canst not follow me now" (John 13:36). Peter was not in a fit state to follow Christ, because he had not been brought to an end of himself; he did not know himself, and he therefore could not follow …
Andrew Murray—Absolute Surrender

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