Luke 18:42

Greek (Tischendorf 8th ed.)

English Translation

Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you."

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ἀνάβλεψον

anablépō

G308

“to look up”

Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular

Appears 25× in the Greek New Testament
First appears at Matthew 11:5

Full Thayer's Definition

Origin: from G303 and G991

TDNT: None

1. to look up 2. to recover (lost) sight

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

11: words
9: distinct lemmas
Gospels: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is ἀνάβλεψον to look up G308 — appearing just 25 times in the whole Greek New Testament.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

ἀνάβλεψον to look up G308 occurs in 23 verses of the Greek New Testament. Also found in:

Repetition

Words recur within this verse:

ὁ the G3588 ×2
σου you G4771 ×2

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Luke 18:42 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Matthew 8:3 Jesus stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be made clean." Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Luke 8:48 He said to her, "Daughter, cheer up. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace."
Luke 17:19 Then he said to him, "Get up, and go your way. Your faith has healed you."
Psalms 107:20 He sends his word, and heals them, And delivers them from their graves.
Matthew 9:22 But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, "Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well." And the woman was made well from that hour.
Luke 7:50 He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."
Psalms 33:9 For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.
Matthew 15:28 Then Jesus answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that hour.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Commentary

Notes on Luke 18:42 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(42) Thy faith hath saved thee.—Better, as in St. Mark, Thy faith hath made thee whole, the immediate reference being obviously to the restoration of the man’s sight, and that which was in the immediate future being recognised as already ideally completed. Beyond this, as in the use of the same formula in Luk_7:50, there lies in the word a reference to the salvation, the healthiness of spiritual vision, of which the restoration of bodily sight was at once the type and the earnest.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

42. thy faith hath saved thee] The brief sentences of the narrative have been beautifully woven by Mr Longfellow into his little poem of Blind Bartimaeus: [indent]

“Those mighty voices three,

Ἰησοῦ ἐλέησόν με!

Θάρσει, ἔγειραι! Ὕπαγε·

Ἡ πίστις σου σέσωκέ σε!”

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight. "Magnifique aumone du Christ" (Pressense"). Thy faith hath saved thee. The American Longfellow has united the cry for mercy of the blind, the kindly sympathizing words of the disciples (reported by St. Mark), and the gift of Jesus Christ, in his exquisite poem of "Blind Bartimaeus." "Those mighty voices three Ihsou elehson me ! Yarrsei egeire fwnei se H pistiv sou seswke se !"

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Scofield Reference Notes

C. I. Scofield

saved

(See Scofield "Rom 1:16").

The Scofield Reference Bible (1917 edition), notes by C. I. Scofield — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

Receive your sight

This is a command, but Jesus is not commanding the man to do anything. Jesus is healing the man by commanding him to be healed. AT: "You will now receive your sight" (See: Imperatives - Other Uses)

Your faith has healed you

These words are a metonym. It was because of the man's faith that Jesus healed the man. AT: "I have healed you because you believed in me" (See: Metonymy)

glorifying God

"giving glory to God" or "praising God"

translationWords

faith

cure

glory

praise

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges

42. ἡ πίστις σου σέσωκέν σε. The brief sentences of the narrative have been beautifully woven by Mr Longfellow into his little poem of Blind Bartimaeus:

“Recall those mighty voices three,

Ἰησοῦ ἐλέησόν με!

Θάρσει, ἔγειραι! Ὕπαγε·

Ἡ πίστις σου σέσωκέ σε!”

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges (Cambridge University Press, 1896; 21 vols, various authors incl. Carr, Maclear, Plummer, Farrar, Lumby, Moule, M. R. James, Simcox) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

International Critical Commentary

42. ἡ πίστις σου. The multitude had called Jesus “the Nazarene,” and had tried to silence the blind man. He had called Him the “Son of David,” and had persevered all the more. Mt. says that Jesus touched the eyes, but omits these words. Comp. 7:50, 8:48, 17:19.

International Critical Commentary — older volumes (1896–1929), various authors — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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Luke, in the Gospels, opens this verse with 11 words (9 distinct Greek lemmas). Its most distinctive word is anablépō (“to look up”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word anablépō carries the sense “to look up.” How does it shape the verse?
Matthew 11:5 shares the word «to look up» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“the” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
Reading how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
“the” occurs 2× in this single verse.
9 distinct Greek lemmas span 11 words in this verse.