Mark 2:12

tells how the man did as bidden, to the astonishment of all spectators. πάντας, all, without exception, scribes included? (Kloster.) It might have been so had the sentence stopped there. For no doubt the scribes were as much astonished as their neighbours at what took place. But they would not join in the praise to God which followed. οὕτως οὐδέποτε εἰδομεν : elliptical, but expressive, suited to the mental mood = so we never saw, i.e., we never saw the like.

N.B. The title “Son of Man” occurs in this narrative for the first time in Mk.'s Gospel; vide on Matthew 8:20; Matthew 9:6.