“And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also?”
The other guests began to say among themselves, who is this who even forgives sins? — the guests' reaction mirrors the scribes' reaction at the paralytic healing: who is this who forgives sins? The question is the right question — only God can forgive sins — and the chapter has been building to this question since the centurion's servant. Jesus forgives sins with the same authority with which he heals diseases and raises the dead.
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