Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
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Gill's Exposition
And immediately, when Jesus perceived in his Spirit,.... "His own Spirit", as the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions read; not his human soul, nor the holy Spirit of God, though both…
See this miracle explained in Mat 9:2-8. Palsy - See the notes at Mat 4:24. Borne of four - Carried upon a couch Mat 9:2 by four men. Mar 2:4 The press - The crowd, the multitude of people. Jesus was…
Adam Clarke
Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? - See this explained Mat 9:3 (note), etc.
Christ, having been for some time preaching about in the country, here returns to Capernaum his head-quarters, and makes his appearance there, in hopes that by this time the talk and crowd would be…
Cambridge Bible
blasphemies for the claim to forgive sins implied a distinct equality with God in respect to one of His most incommunicable attributes.
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