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Scott's Reference Library
Mark 2:1 through Mark 2:12 (NIV)
1A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that
he had come home. 2So many gathered that there was no room left, not even
outside the door, and he preached the word to them. 3Some men came, bringing to
him a paralytic, carried by four of them. 4Since they could not get him to Jesus
because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus and, after
digging through it, lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on. 5When Jesus
saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”
6Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, 7“Why
does this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God
alone?”
8Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in
their hearts, and he said to them, “Why are you thinking these things? 9Which is
easier: to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up,
take your mat and walk’? 10But that you may know that the Son of Man has
authority on earth to forgive sins .” He said to the paralytic, 11“I tell you,
get up, take your mat and go home.” 12He got up, took his mat and walked out in
full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, “We
have never seen anything like this!”
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 1-12
It was this man’s misery that he needed to be so carried, and shows the
suffering state of human life; it was kind of those who so carried him, and
teaches the compassion that should be in men, toward their fellow-creatures in
distress. True faith and strong faith may work in various ways; but it shall be
accepted and approved by Jesus Christ. Sin is the cause of all our pains and
sicknesses. The way to remove the effect, is to take away the cause. Pardon of
sin strikes at the root of all diseases. Christ proved his power to forgive sin,
by showing his power to cure the man sick of the palsy. And his curing diseases
was a figure of his pardoning sin, for sin is the disease of the soul; when it
is pardoned, it is healed. When we see what Christ does in healing souls, we
must own that we never saw the like. Most men think themselves whole; they feel
no need of a physician, therefore despise or neglect Christ and his gospel. But
the convinced, humbled sinner, who despairs of all help, excepting from the
Saviour, will show his faith by applying to him without delay.
See John 5:19-29
See Acts 14:8-18
See Healing