Luke 5:21

Who is this The word used for -this person" is contemptuous. St Matthew puts it still more barely, -This fellow blasphemes," and to indulge such thoughts and feelings was distinctly "to think evil thoughts."

blasphemies In classical Greek the word means abuse and injurious talk, but the Jews used it specially of curses against God, or claiming His attributes (Matthew 26:65; John 10:36).

Who can forgive sins, but God alone The remark in itself was not unnatural, Psalms 32:5; Isaiah 43:25; but they captiously overlooked the possibility of a delegated authority, and the ordinary declaratory idioms of language, which might have shewn them that blasphemy was a thing impossible to Christ, even if they were not yet prepared to admit the Divine Power which He had already exhibited.