Luke 5:24

ἔγειρε καὶ ἄρας … πορεύου : by introducing the participle ἄρας Lk. improves the style as compared with Mk., but weakens the force of the utterance, “arise, take up thy bed and go”. The same remark applies to the words of the scribes, Luke 5:21, “who is this that speaketh blasphemies?” compared with, “why doth this person speak thus? He blasphemes.” Lk.'s is secondary, the style of an editor working over a rugged, graphic, realistic text.