John Gill Commentary Numbers 14:20

"And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word:" — Numbers 14:20 (ASV)

And the Lord said, I have pardoned, according to your word . So as not to kill them utterly as one man: which is an instance of his being plenteous in mercy, and ready to forgive; and of the virtue and efficacy of the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man, and of the great regard the Lord has to the prayers of a good man for others.

The Jerusalem Targum is, ``and the Word of the Lord said, lo, I have remitted and forgiven according to your word;'' which must be understood of Christ, the essential Word, and shows, according to the sense of the Targumist, that he has a power to forgive sin, and must be a divine Person, for none can forgive sin but God; see (Mark 2:7Mark 2:10) .