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Luke 5:21

Luke 5:21
And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And the Scribes and the Pharisees began to reason,.... To think and say within themselves, and it may be to one another, in a private manner:

saying, who is this which speaketh blasphemies? what…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Luke 5:17-26

See this passage explained in the notes at Mat 9:1-7. Luk 5:17 On a certain day - The time and place are not particularly mentioned here, but from Mat 9:1 it seems it was at Capernaum. Luk 5:19 The…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Who can forgive sins, but God alone? - If Jesus were not God, he could not forgive sins; and his arrogating this authority would have been blasphemy against God, in the most proper sense of the word.…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Luke 5:17-26

Here is, I. A general account of Christ's preaching and miracles, Luk 5:17. 1. He was teaching on a certain day, not on the sabbath day, then he would have said so, but on a week-day; six days shalt…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Who is this The word used for -this person" is contemptuous. St Matthew puts it still more barely, -This fellow blasphemes," and to indulge such thoughts and feelings was distinctly "to think evil…