He had just healed a sick man at the pool of Bethesda telling him, "'Get up, pick up your pallet and walk'" (:8). Later he told him in the temple, "'Behold, you have become well; do not sin anymore, so that nothing worse happens to you'" (:14). Another time they brought him a paralytic and "Jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic, 'Son, your sins are forgiven'" (Mk 2:5). But he didn't heal him immediately as at Bethseda. The scribes who were present reasoned, "'Why does this man speak this way? He is blaspheming; who can forgive sins but God alone?'" (:7). That is why another time they accused "'we know that this man is a sinner'" (Jn 9:24). But it was "'so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins'" (Mk 2:10). He explained "'the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath'" (Mt 12:8). Also "'All authority has been given Me in heaven and on earth'" (27:18). Then he said to the paralytic, "'Get up, pick up your pallet and go home'" (Mk 2:10). "On another Sabbath . . . there was a man whose right hand was withered" (Lk 6:6). He told him, "'Stretch out your hand!' And he did so and his hand was restored" (:10). Then there was a blind man who cited that "'it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind'" (Jn 9:32). Jesus "applied the clay to his eyes" (:6) and "he went away and washed, and came back seeing" (:7). The Pharisees accused Jesus of being a sinner and the man replied, "'Whether He is a sinner, I do not know . . . [but] now I see'" (:25). Jesus' response is, "'Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe Me?'" (Jn 8:46).
The Jews' perspective was, "'You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?'" (Jn 8:57). Jesus' response to the high priest's question "'Are You the Christ?'" (Mk 14:61) was "'I Am'" (:62). The answer had been prophesied in Daniel 7:13-14. But they put it in the Old Testament context of "'the one who blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him'" (Lev 24:16). Jesus had asked them, "'I showed you many good works from the Father; for which are you stoning Me?'" (Jn 10:32). The high priest said, "'You have heard the blasphemy' . . . and they all condemned Him to be deserving of death" (Mk 14:64). But Jesus had told the believers, "'If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him'" (Jn 14:7). However, "anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God" (2Jn9).