Luke 5:26 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

They were all amazed,— That is, the Pharisees and doctors of the law, mentioned Luke 5:17 as well as all the people. See Matthew 9:8. And indeed, whether you examine the nature of this miracle, as being a perfect and instantaneous cure of an obstinate universal palsy, under which a person advanced in years had laboured for a long time; a perfect cure produced by pronouncing a single sentence; or whether you consider the number and quality of the witnesses present, Pharisees and doctors of the law from every town of Galilee and Judea, and from Jerusalem, together with the vast concourse of people; or whether you attend to the effect which the miracle had upon the witnesses;—that the Pharisees and doctors of the law, not able to find fault with it in any respect, though they had come with a design to refute our Lord's pretensions as a worker of miracles, were astonished, and openly confessed that it was a strange thing which they had seen;—that the multitude glorified God, who had given such power unto men;—that the person upon whom the miracle was wrought, employed his tongue, the use of which he had recovered, in celebrating the praises of God:—in short, view it in whatever light you please, you will find in it a most illustrious miracle, highly worthy of your attention and admiration.