“And he arose, and departed to his house.”
And he rose and went home. The simple compliance and the simple result: he rose and went home. The healings of chapters 8–9 consistently end with this kind of simple action statement — the healed person does what the healing enables: the leper goes to the priest (8:4), Peter's mother-in-law rises and serves (8:15), the paralytic rises and goes home. The restoration produced by Jesus enables the basic functions of human life that the affliction had blocked. Going home is the most ordinary human activity, and it is what the formerly paralyzed man can now do.
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