Luke 7:49 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴⁹And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also?

Luke 7:49 —

Old words in this verse

meat: — food of any kind.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 5:20-21
And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee. …
Mark 2:7
Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
Matthew 9:3
And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth.

Topics

Self-Righteousness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 36-49)

When and where this passage of story happened does not appear; this evangelist does not observe order of time in his narrative so much as the other evangelists do; but it comes in here, upon occasion of Christ’s being reproached as a friend to publicans and sinners, to show that it was only for their good, and to bring them to repentance, that he conversed with them; and that those whom he admitte…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 49)

49-50. 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 “…