Mark 2:7 (BSB)
“Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
Commentary on Mark 2:7
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Mark 2:1-12: Christ, having been for some time preaching about in the country, here returns to Capernaum his head-quarters, and makes his appearance there, in hopes that by this time the talk and crowd would be somewhat abated. Now observe, I. The great resort there was to him.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Mark 2:7: And immediately, when Jesus perceived in his Spirit,.... "His own Spirit", as the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions read; not his human soul, nor the holy Spirit of God, though both may be said to be his Spirit; but his divine nature, in and by which he knew all things, even the most sacred thoughts of men's hearts: and as soon as ever...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Mark 2:7: Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?--In this second question they expressed a great truth. (See Isa 43:25; Mic 7:18; Exo 34:6-7, &c.). Nor was their first question altogether unnatural, though in our Lord's sole case it was unfounded.
- Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on Mark 2:7: Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? - See this explained Mat 9:3 (note), etc.