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Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralytic

1 So He got into a boat, crossed over, aand came to His own city.  
2 aThen behold, they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. bWhen Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.”  
3 And at once some of the scribes said within themselves, “This Man blasphemes!”
4 But Jesus, aknowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?  
5 For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk’?
6 But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—then He said to the paralytic, “Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.”
7 And he arose and departed to his house.
8 Now when the multitudes saw it, they amarveled and glorified God, who had given such power to men.  

Matthew the Tax Collector

9 aAs Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” So he arose and followed Him.  
10 aNow it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples.  
11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with atax collectors and bsinners?”  
12 When Jesus heard that, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
13 But go and learn what this means: a‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, bbut sinners, to repentance.”  

Jesus Is Questioned About Fasting

14 Then the disciples of John came to Him, saying, a“Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?”  
15 And Jesus said to them, “Can athe friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and bthen they will fast.  
16 No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for1 the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse.  
17 Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins1 break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”  

A Girl Restored to Life and a Woman Healed

18 aWhile He spoke these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped Him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay Your hand on her and she will live.”  
19 So Jesus arose and followed him, and so did His adisciples.  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Matthew 9:2

Sick of the palsy - See Matthew 4:24.

Lying on a bed - , a couch or sofa, such as they reclined on at meals.

Seeing their faith - The faith of the paralytic person, and the faith of those who brought him; see on Mark 2:4 (note).

Be of good cheer - , Son, take courage! Probably he began to despond, and Christ spoke thus to support his faith.

Thy sins be forgiven thee - Moral evil has been the cause of all the natural evil in the world. Christ goes to the source of the malady, which is sin; and to that as the procuring cause we should refer in all our afflictions. It is probable that this paralytic person had, in the earnest desires of his heart, entreated the cure of his soul, leaving his body to the care of others, as the first miracle of healing is wrought on his soul. In a state of helplessness, when we seek above all things to please God, by giving him our hearts, he often inspires others with the care of our temporal necessities. It may be necessary to be observed, that it was a maxim among the Jews that no diseased person could be healed till all his sins were blotted out. See Nedarim, fol. 41. Hence our Lord first forgives the sins, and then heals the body of the paralytic person. This appears to have been founded on Psalms 103:3. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, and healeth all thy diseases. Here pardon precedes health. See also Psalms 41:3, Psalms 41:4. It may be observed, also, that most people are more in earnest about their souls when in sickness than in health, and therefore are more earnest in prayer for salvation.




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Matthew 9:2:

Matthew 9:22
Mark 2:3

 

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