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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed. The tense of the verb implies that he often did this; it was his habit to withdraw himself for private prayer even in his busiest times, and when he could occupy every minute with great advantage to the people. Thus he gathered new strength from above for each day’s work; and when there was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed. And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them. These were the least hopeful patients that the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed. Just when there were such grand opportunities of doing good, just when everybody sought him, does be get right away from them into the wilderness to pray? Yes, because he felt what we ought to feel but often do not, that he needed fresh power, that as the servant of God he must wait upon God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed. That is just what you and I would probably not have done under such circumstances. We should have said, “We must seize this golden opportunity of publishing our message. There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to plenitude of blessing; and we must take...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And it came to pass on a certain day,.... When he was at Capernaum, as appears from Mr 2:1 As he was teaching: in the house where such numbers were gathered together, to hear the word of God preached by him, that there was not room for them, neither within the house, nor about the door, Mr 2:2 That there were Pharisees and doctors of the law...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them. Not the Pharisees and doctors of the law; they do not often get healed by Christ, but “the power of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them. The word “them” scarcely gives the right sense of the original; it should be, “the power of the Lord was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it came to pass on a certain days, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was present to heal them. To heal the people? Yes, and to heal the doctors, too; and that was a far more difficult thing than to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy,.... Four men brought him, as Mark says, Mr 2:3 and which the Ethiopic version expresses here: "and they sought means to bring him in": into the house where Jesus was: and to lay him before him; at his feet, in hope of moving his compassion, and to obtain a cure of him: of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: He had had a stroke of paralysis.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him. And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, — By the external staircase, —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him. And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus. There does...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And, behold,— For it was a great wonder,— Luk_5:18. Men brought in a bed a man which was taken with palsy: A paralyzed man.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him. And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop,— There was, no doubt, a staircase outside, as there usually is to Eastern houses: “They went upon the housetop,”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when they could not find by what way,.... As by the door, or in at a window of the house: they might bring him in; to Jesus, in the house: because of the multitude; which was about the door, and all the fore part of the house: they went upon the housetop; by a ladder, or pair of stairs, which usually were on the outside of houses; [See...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus. Probably into the courtyard of the house where Jesus was preaching.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus. And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee. And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone? Most true, O Pharisees; and, therefore he is God, for...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when he saw their faith,.... That is, Jesus, as the Syriac and Persic versions express it; when he saw the faith both of the paralytic man, and of the men that brought him, which was shown in the pains they took, and trouble they were at, in getting him to him; he said unto him. The Vulgate Latin only reads, "he said"; but the Syriac, Arabic,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee. Laying the axe at the root; not healing the paralysis at first, but forgiving the sin which depressed the man’s spirit, and so was, in a measure, the cause of the paralysis. By removing the sin, he raised the man’s spirits, and with his renewed spirits, there same back...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee. Christ has eyes with which he can see faith. You and I cannot see it; but he can: “When he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins be forgiven thee.” This was going to the very root of his disease. Jesus knew what the man really ailed; he was palsied in spirit...