Mark 2:5
saw Gen 22:12; John 2:25; Acts 11:23, Acts 14:9; Eph 2:8; 1Thess 1:3-4; Jas 2:18-22 he said Mark 2:9-10; Isa 53:11; Matt 9:2; Luke 5:20, Luke 7:47-50; Acts 5:31; 2Cor 2:10; Col 3:13 Son The Jews believed that not only death but all disease was the consequence of sin. "There is no death without sin, nor any chastisement without iniquity;" and that "no diseased person could be healed of his disease till his sins were blotted out." Our Lord, therefore, as usual, appeals to their received opinions, and asserts his high dignity, by first forgiving the sins, and then healing the body of the paralytic. Mark 5:34; Matt 9:22; Luke 8:48 sins Job 33:17-26; Ps 32:1-5, Ps 90:7-9, Ps 103:3; Isa 38:17; John 5:14; 1Cor 11:30; Jas 5:15
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