Chapter 2:
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Mark 2
Afterwards (chap. 2) He goes again into the city, and
immediately the multitude gather together. What a living picture of the
Lord's life of service! He preaches to them. This was His object and His
service (see chap. 1: 38). But again, in devoting Himself to the humble
accomplishment of it as committed to Him, His service itself, His love-for
who serves like God when He deigns to do it?-bring out His divine rights.
He knew the real source of all these evils, and He could bring in its
remedy. "Thy sins," said He to the poor paralytic man, who was brought to
Him with a faith that overcame difficulties, persevering in spite of
them-that perseverance of faith which is fed by the sense of want, and
certainty that power is to be found in Him who is sought-"thy sins are
forgiven thee." To the reasoning of the scribes He gives an answer that
silenced every gainsayer. He exercises the power that authorised Him to
pronounce the pardon of the poor sufferer.
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3]
The murmuring of the scribes brought out doctrinally who was there; as the
verdict of the priests, who pronounce the leper clean, put the seal of
their authority upon the truth that Jehovah, the healer of Israel, was
there. That which Jesus carries on is His work, His testimony. The effect
is to make it manifest that Jehovah is there, and has visited His people.
It is Psalm 103 which is fulfilled, with respect to the rights and the
revelation of the Person of Him who wrought.
Jesus leaves the city; the people flock around Him; and again He teaches
them. The call of Levi gives occasion for a new development of His
ministry. He was come to call sinners, and not the righteous. After this He
tells them that He could not put the new divine energy, unfolded in
Himself, into the old forms of Pharisaism. And there was another reason for
it -the presence of the Bridegroom. How could the children of the
bridechamber fast while the Bridegroom was with them? He should be taken
from them, and then would be the time to fast. He proceeds to insist on the
incompatibility between the old Jewish vessels and the power of the gospel.
The latter would but subvert Judaism, to which they sought to attach it.
That which took place when the disciples went through the cornfields
confirms this doctrine.
Ordinances lost their authority in the presence of the King ordained of
God, rejected and a pilgrim on the earth. Moreover the sabbath-a sign of
the covenant between God and the Jews-was made for man, and not man for the
sabbath; therefore He, the Son of man, was Lord of the sabbath. As Son of
David rejected, the ordinances lost their force, and were subordinate to
Him. As Son of man possessor (in the sight of God) of all the rights which
God had bestowed on man, He was Lord of the sabbath, which was made for
man. In principle the old things were passed away. But this was not all. It
was in fact the new things of grace and power, which did not admit of the
old order of things. But the question was, whether God could act in grace,
and bestow blessing, in sovereignty, on His people-whether He must submit
to the authority of men availing themselves of His ordinances against His
goodness, or do good according to His own power and love as being above
all. Was man to limit the operation of God's goodness? And this, in truth,
was the new wine which the Lord brought to man.
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3] We must distinguish between governmental forgiveness, and absolute
pardon of sins. Only, such as man is, there could not have been the former
without the latter. But till Christ was rejected and had died this was not
fully brought out.
Chapter 2:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Lightfoot
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| McGarvey Pendleton
| McGee
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Matthew Luke
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