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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Mark 2:12 - 2:12
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And immediately he arose, took up the bed - “Sweet saying!” says Bengel: “The bed had borne the man: now the man bore the bed.”
and went forth before them all - proclaiming by that act to the multitude, whose wondering eyes would follow him as he pressed through them, that He who could work such a glorious miracle of healing, must indeed “have power on earth to forgive sins.”
We never saw it on this fashion - “never saw it thus,” or, as we say, “never saw the like.” In Luke (Luk 5:26) it is, “We have seen strange [unexpected] things to-day” - referring both to the miracles wrought and the forgiveness of sins pronounced by Human Lips. In Matthew (Mat 9:8) it is, “They marveled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.” At forgiving power they wondered not, but that a man, to all appearance like one of themselves, should possess it!