3And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth.
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Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.
And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.
And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?
Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.
The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)The first words of this chapter oblige us to look back to the close of that which precedes it, where we find the Gadarenes so resenting the loss of their swine, that they were disgusted with Christ’s company, and besought him to depart out of their coasts . Now here it follows, He entered into a ship, and passed over . They bid him begone, and he took them at their word, and we never read that he…
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