Luke 14:2

Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.

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WEBBE

Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.

BSB

Right there before Him was a man with dropsy.

KJV

And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy.

ASV

And behold, there was before him a certain man that had the dropsy.

BBE

And a certain man was there who had a disease.

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καὶ kai And G2532 ἰδοὺ idou behold G2400 ἄνθρωπός anthrōpos a man G444 τις tis certain G5100 ἦν ēn there was G1510 ὑδρωπικὸς hudrōpikos with dropsy G5203 ἔμπροσθεν emprosthen before G1715 αὐτοῦ.¶ autou Him G846

The early church

(ubi sup.) Or we rightly compare the dropsical man to a covetous rich man. For as the former, the more he increases in unnatural moisture the greater his thirst; so also the other, the more abundant his riches, which he does not employ well, the more ardently he desires them.
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(de Quæst. Evan. lib. 2. cap. 29.) Now He has aptly compared the dropsical man to an animal which has fallen into a ditch, (for he is troubled by water,) as He compared that woman, whom He spoke of as bound, and whom He Himself loosed, to a beast which is let loose to be led to water.
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
When then the man with the dropsy came into the midst of them, He rebukes by a question the insolence of the Pharisees, who wished to detect Him; as it is said, And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy. And Jesus answering, &c.
Cyril of Alexandria · d. 444Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(14 Mor. c. 6.) Rightly then is the dropsical man healed in the Pharisees' presence, for by the bodily infirmity of the one, is expressed the mental disease of the other.
Gregory the Dialogist · d. 604Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
Mystically, the dropsical man is compared to him who is weighed down by an overflowing stream of carnal pleasures. For the disease of dropsy derives the name from a watery humour.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 1–6

This Pharisee, as well as others, seems to have had an ill design in entertaining Jesus at his house. But our Lord would not be hindered from healing a man, though he knew a clamour would be raised at his doing it on the sabbath. It requires care to understand the proper connexion between piety and charity in observing the sabbath, and the distinction between works of real necessity and habits of self-indulgence. Wisdom from above, teaches patient perseverance in well-doing.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.