A pictorial commentary on the Gospel according to Mark : with the text of the Authorized and Revised versions . d Version. 5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto thesick of the pals^, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. 6 But there were certain of the scribes sittingthere, and reasoning in their hf^arts, 7 AVhy doth this man thus sjieak blasphemies ?who can forgive sins but God only ? 8 And immediately, when Jesus perceived inhis spirit that they so reasoned within them-selves, he said tinto them Why reason ye thesetilings in your hearts? » Gr. Child. absurd. The room was either the court or,
A pictorial commentary on the Gospel according to Mark : with the text of the Authorized and Revised versions . d Version. 5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto thesick of the pals^, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. 6 But there were certain of the scribes sittingthere, and reasoning in their hf^arts, 7 AVhy doth this man thus sjieak blasphemies ?who can forgive sins but God only ? 8 And immediately, when Jesus perceived inhis spirit that they so reasoned within them-selves, he said tinto them Why reason ye thesetilings in your hearts? » Gr. Child. absurd. The room was either the court or, more probably, an upper cham-ber, which often extendedover the whole area of thehouse. Comp. Actsi, 13;ix, 37 ; XX, 8. 5. tJieir faitK] Thefaith of the paralytic him-self and those that borehim. Jesus did not rejectthis charitable work of theirs in bringing be-fore him the palsied ] Or child, forthe Greek word is neuter,and used for persons ofboth sexes. Luke v, 20,gives the words thus:** Man, thy sins are for-given thee. Mark haspreserved to us the ten-derer word, as Matthewdoes in the case of the. AN EASTERN HOUSE TOP. woman with the issue of blood (Matt, ix, 22). thy sins] Comp. the words of the Saviour to the man who had an infir-mity thirty and eight years : sin no more, lest a worse thing come untothee, John v, 14. So this mans consciousness of sin was such thatit was necessary to speak to his soul before healing his body. SeeLuke vii, 48. But Jesus did elsewhere condemn the Jewish notion that allsuffering was caused by some special sin. See John ix, 3 ; Luke xiii, 2-5. forgiven] The Greek verb is ambiguous, and may be either a commandor an affirmation, be forgiven, are forgiven. or, have been revisers adopt the second rendering. How many in every age cantestify that this palsied mans experience has been their own? They havelearned wisdom by aflfliclion. Bereavements have proved mercies. Losseshave proved re^d gains. Sicknesses have led them to the Gr
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