certain of the scribes During our Lord's absence from Capernaum it would seem there had arrived not only from Galilee, but even from Judæa and Jerusalem (Luke 5:17), Pharisees and lawyers, who were insidiously watching all that He did. Emissaries from the hostile party at Jerusalem, where the Lord's death had already been decreed (John 5:18), they proceeded to carry out a settled plan of collecting charges against Him and thwarting His work of mercy.

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