“What is this bed which he is commanded to take up, as he is told to rise? It is the same bed which was washed by David every night, the bed of pain on which our soul lay sick with the cruel torment of conscience. But if anyone has acted according to Christ's teaching, it is already not a bed of pain but of repose. Ind…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — Commentary on Luke
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26And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day.
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24But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house.
25And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.
— Luke 5:26 —
27And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me.