17:19a
Then Jesus said to him, “Rise and go: Jesus told the man to Rise and go. In this context the phrase Rise and go means “stand up and go on your way.” It was a polite way for Jesus to give the man permission to leave. Here is another way to translate this:
You may get up and go. (Contemporary English Version)
In some languages it may be more natural to leave the action of getting up implied. For example:
You may go now.
Use a natural expression in your language.
17:19b
your faith has made you well: The noun faith refers here to the action of believing and trusting Jesus. The statement your faith has made you well implies that the leper believed that Jesus would heal him. In some languages it may be more natural to translate faith as a verb. If that is true in your language, you may also need to make explicit who or what was believed. Some ways to translate this are:
You(sing) trusted ⌊in God/me⌋ and that has healed you.
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You are well because you believed ⌊that God/I could/would heal you⌋.
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Because you trusted/believed ⌊in me⌋, ⌊God⌋ has cured you.
See also the notes on 8:48a, where the same phrase occurs (there the Berean Standard Bible translates it as “your faith has healed you”). See believe, Meaning 2, in the Glossary.
has made you well: The Greek phrase that the Berean Standard Bible translates as has made you well is literally “has delivered/saved you.” Here it refers to delivering from sickness. It also implies here that he was reconciled with God and so was saved from sin and its punishment. The other nine lepers were healed of their sickness, but the leper who returned to Jesus received eternal salvation.
If possible, it is good to translate in a general way so that both meanings may be implied. Some ways to translate it in English are:
has delivered you
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has healed/cured you
See save in the Glossary.
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