Mat 9:2-8 | Family | STEP | Son ; a title of condescension and kindness. Thy sins be forgiven thee ; here, as everywhere in the holy Scriptures, disease is regarded as a fruit of sin. The forgiveness of the man's sins by the Saviour is a pledge that in due time his disease shall also be healed. Some think that this had been produced by special sinful indulgence. When men feel their need of Christ, and have living faith in him, they will let nothing hinder their application to him for help.

‏ Matthew 9:2-8

Son; a title of condescension and kindness.

Thy sins be forgiven thee; here, as everywhere in the holy Scriptures, disease is regarded as a fruit of sin. The forgiveness of the man's sins by the Saviour is a pledge that in due time his disease shall also be healed. Some think that this had been produced by special sinful indulgence. When men feel their need of Christ, and have living faith in him, they will let nothing hinder their application to him for help. Blasphemeth; by usurping the prerogative of God to forgive sins. Knowing their thoughts; by his divine omniscience, though they had not expressed them.

Think ye evil; of me, as if I were a blasphemer in forgiving sins. Easier; that is, one is as really the work of God as the other. But that ye may know; by healing the sick of the palsy he manifests himself to be God, and therefore able to forgive sins. Unto men; it was not a man that had done this divine work, but God manifest in the flesh. 1Ti 3:16.