“Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?””
— WEB
Luke 7:49
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“And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also?”
— KJV
“And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that even forgiveth sins?”
— ASV
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Commentary
they that sat . . . Who is this, &c.--No wonder they were startled to hear One who was reclining at the same couch, and partaking of the same hospitalities with themselves, assume the awful prerogative of "even forgiving sins." But so far from receding from this claim, or softening it down, our Lord only repeats it, with two precious additions: one, announcing what was the one secret of the "forgiveness" she had experienced, and which carried "salvation" in its bosom; the other, a glorious dismissal of her in that "peace" which she had already felt, but is now assured she has His full warrant to enjoy! This wonderful scene teaches two very weighty truths: (1) Though there be degrees of guilt, insolvency, or inability to wipe out the dishonor done to God, is common to all sinners. (2) As Christ is the Great Creditor to whom all debt, whether great or small, contracted by sinners is owing, so to Him belongs the prerogative of forgiving it. This latter truth is brought out in the structure and application of the present parable as it is nowhere else. Either then Jesus was a blaspheming deceiver, or He is God manifest in the flesh. Next: Luke Chapter 8
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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