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Commentary from the Church Fathers [ edit ] Jerome : " We read in prophecy, I am he that blots out thy transgressions; (Is. 43:25.) so the Scribes regarding Him as a man, and not understanding the words of God, charged Him with blasphemy.
Matthew 9 is the ninth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. It continues the narrative about Jesus' ministry in Galilee as he ministers to the public, working miracles, and going through all the cities and towns of the area, preaching the gospel, and healing every disease. [ 1 ]
Commentary from the Church Fathers [ edit ] Chrysostom : Our Saviour, therefore, shews himself to be equal to his Father, by thus revealing to all, the malicious murmurs of his enemies, who for fear of the multitude, dared not to publish themselves what their wicked hearts devised....
By this MacEvilly believes he referring to the ancient custom of mourning for the dead, with fasting, which David and the Hebrews did for seven days when Saul died. Lapide points out that the Apostles did stricter fasting after Jesus died, which St. Paul relates in 1 Cor 11.
Commentary from the Church Fathers [ edit ] Jerome : " Whether or no his sins were forgiven He alone could know who forgave; but whether he could rise and walk, not only himself but they that looked on could judge of; but the power that heals, whether soul or body, is the same.
Commentary from the Church Fathers [ edit ] Chrysostom : "And not for this reason only, but that He might make manifest that they were worthy of healing, and that none might object, that if mercy alone saved, then ought all to be saved.
The story connects the person's infirmity to a spiritual cause (cf. Exodus 20:5; 1 Corinthians 11:29–30; James 5:14–15; in Matthew 9:32–34 a demon makes a man deaf and dumb), so by declaring that the man's sins are forgiven Jesus uproots the cause of the paralysis. [1]
[5] Saint Remigius: "Or, He then increased their number when He chose the seventy and two, and then when many preachers were made what time the Holy Spirit descended upon the believers." [5] Chrysostom: "He shews us that it is a great gift that one should have the power of rightly preaching, in that He tells them that they ought to pray for it ...