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• Works as a standing label for a person's lasting condition, listed beside "blind" and "lame" among the people waiting by the pool.Jhn 5:3Mat 12:10
• Names dry ground as the opposite of water, the solid footing people cross on when the sea is out of the way or travel over on their way across the world.Heb 11:29Mat 23:15
• Sets a fixed quality against its opposite, dry wood against living green wood, as a warning that what is coming will burn far more readily.Luk 23:31

• Both describe the same shriveled hand in the same scene: Mark first says the man's hand had dried up, then calls him the man with the dry hand two verses later, and Luke uses the label for the same kind of case.Mrk 3:1Mrk 3:3Luk 6:6
• Both belong to the picture of plant life that has lost its sap and become fuel, whether branches that wither after being thrown out or wood that is already dry when the fire arrives.Jhn 15:6Luk 23:31

• Names the drying as an event you can watch happen, often on the spot: the cursed fig tree shrivels immediately, and the disciples are startled by how fast it went.Mat 21:19Mat 21:20Mrk 11:20Mrk 11:21
• Explains why shallow growth fails, because it tracks the moment the sun comes up and rootless plants lose the moisture they never stored.Mat 13:6Mrk 4:6Luk 8:6
• Covers a flow of liquid stopping, not just a plant shriveling: a woman's bleeding halts at once, and a great river is emptied to clear a road.Mrk 5:29Rev 16:12
• Can mark a welcome outcome rather than a loss, since a crop dried to full ripeness is exactly what tells the harvester to start reaping.Rev 14:15
• Reaches past plants and water to a body seizing up, describing a boy who goes rigid in the grip of a fit.Mrk 9:18
• Carries the picture of how briefly people last, with burning heat drying out the grass and the flower falling while the rich man is still going about his business.Jas 1:111Pe 1:24

• Describes a body that has dried out and stopped working, so it becomes the word for a limb or a person who is disabled: the man whose right hand had withered, and the crowd of sick people lying by the pool. The word for green, sappy wood is never used of a body.Mat 12:10Mrk 3:3Luk 6:6Luk 6:8Jhn 5:3
• Stands on its own as a name for solid ground, the land as opposed to the sea, which is why English versions render it "dry land" where the Pharisees cross sea and land and where Israel walks through the Red Sea.Mat 23:15Heb 11:29

• Both judge something by the sap still in it, and Jesus sets them side by side as the two ends of one scale on the way to the cross: if this is what people do while the wood is still green, what will happen once it is dry?Luk 23:31
• Both are ordinary household words about how much moisture something holds, and the New Testament applies each one to living things rather than to weather or to objects: a hand that has dried up, wood that is still full of life.Luk 6:6Luk 23:31

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