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But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" -- he said to the paralytic,
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Proof in the Healing
Commentators explain that Jesus deliberately performed the visible, physical healing to prove He had the invisible, spiritual authority to forgive sins. The healing of the paralytic's body was undeniable evidence for the scribes and the crowd that His claim to forgive—a power belonging to God alone—was true.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Verse 3. Borne of four. This means carried on a couch () by four men.
The press. This refers to the crowd, the multitude o…
That ye may know (ινα ειδητε). The scribes could have said either of the alternatives in verse 9 with equal futility. Jesus could …
19th Century
Baptist
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and …
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Jesus’ statement in the first half of v.10 was addressed to the scribes. The words “he said to the paralytic” constitute a parenthesis to explain t…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But that you may know that the son of man Meaning himself, who was really man, and the true Messiah, in which sense …
It was this man's misery that he needed to be so carried, and this shows the suffering state of human life. It was kind of those who so carried him…
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