Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Mark 2:7
7. Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?—In this second question they expressed a great truth. (See Isaiah 43:25; Micah 7:18; Exodus 34:6; Exodus 34:7, c.). Nor was their first question altogether unnatural, though in our Lord's sole case it was unfounded. That a man, to all appearances like one of themselves, should claim authority and power to forgive sins, they could not, on the first blush of it, but regard as in the last degree startling nor were they... read more
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Mark 2:6
6. But there were certain of the scribes—"and the Pharisees" ( :-) sitting there—those Jewish ecclesiastics who, as Luke told us ( :-), "were come out of every village of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem," to make their observations upon this wonderful Person, in anything but a teachable spirit, though as yet their venomous and murderous feeling had not showed itself. and reasoning in their hearts. read more