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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 vain boaster, and blaspheming creature is this, who assumes that to himself, which is the prerogative of God? Who can forgive sins but God alone? against...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the scribes and the Pharisees Here they are, these caviling gentlemen, these Pharisees and doctors of the law, —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Began to reason, saying, Who it this which speaketh blasphemies? ho can forgive sins, but God alone. But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts? Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk? He that could do the one could do the other. He who bids the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, The gentlemen I alluded to just now began to reason. It was just like them; instead of beginning to praise God, they “began to reason,”-
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But when Jesus perceived their thoughts,.... Being God omniscient; he answering said unto them, what reason ye in your hearts? This he said, not as being ignorant what their reasonings were, for it is before said he perceived their thoughts, but to expose the wickedness of them; in one exemplar of Beza's it is added, "evil things", as in Matthew...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Saying, Who is this, which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone? But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, Why reason ye in your hearts? See, Jesus can perceive thoughts. I have heard of “thought-reading.” Here is a true specimen of it: “Jesus perceived their thoughts, and said unto them, Why reason...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, Why reason ye in your hearts? Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, rise up and walk? “Does not each of these require the same divine power? If I am able to bid him rise up and walk, I am also able, by the same divine authority, to forgive his sins.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Whether is it easier to say,.... Mark adds, "to the sick of the palsy"; to whom Christ had said that his sins were forgiven him, which had given offence to the Scribes and Pharisees, imagining that he had assumed too much to himself: wherefore he proposes the following case to them, which they thought was most easy for man, or more proper and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk? Anyone can say, “Thy sins be forgiven thee,” or, “Rise up and walk,” but to forgive sins, or to give the power to rise up and walk, equally needs a God. If God be present, and can make the palsied man arise and walk, he is also able to forgive his sins.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But that ye may know, that the son of man,.... Whom the Scribes and Pharisees took for a mere man, in which they were mistaken; for though he was really a man, and the son of man, yet he was God as well as man; he was God manifest in the flesh: hath power upon earth to forgive sins; even in the days of his flesh, whilst he was in his humble form...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house. And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God. And they were all amazed, and they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house. And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God. And they were all amazed, and they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house. And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God. And they were all amazed, and they...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And immediately he rose up before them,.... As soon as ever these words were spoken by Christ, the man, before sick of the palsy, finding himself perfectly well, got off of his couch, and stood up on his feet before the Scribes and Pharisees, and all the people: and took up that whereon he lay; his couch, or bed: and departed to his own house;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they were all amazed, and they glorified God,.... Not the Pharisees, and doctors of the law, but the common people: and were filled with fear; of the Divine Being, whose presence and power they were sensible must be in this case: saying, we have seen strange things today; paradoxes, things wonderful, unthought of, unexpected, and incredible by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Saying, We have seen strange things today. Oh, that we might see such “strange things” in this house tonight, and whenever we meet to worship God!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Saying, We have seen strange things today. And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: This Levi, or Matthew, was a tax collector; not like those of our own day, but one who farmed the taxes for the Roman governor, and made what he could for himself out of them; at least, that is what...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And after these things he went forth,.... After his discourse with the Scribes and Pharisees, and his healing of the man, sick with the palsy, he went forth from the city of Capernaum, to the sea side; not only for retirement and recreation, after the work of the day hitherto, but in order to meet with, and call one that was to be a disciple of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me. And he left all, rose up, and followed him. And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them. But their scribes and Pharisees...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said unto him, Follow me. And he left all, rose up, and followed him. This was just a parallel case to that of curing the palsied man; it is precisely the same morally as the other was physically. The office of a publican was disreputable in the eyes of the Jews, and this Levi was probably making money fast at the cost of his own...