Mark 2:7
Good News Translation
"How does he dare talk like this? This is blasphemy! God is the only one who can forgive sins!"

New Revised Standard Version
“Why does this fellow speak in this way? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

Contemporary English Version
"Why would he say such a thing? He must think he is God! Only God can forgive sins."

New American Bible
“Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming. Who but God alone can forgive sins?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why doth this man speak thus? He blasphemeth. Who can forgive sins, but God only?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Why doth this man speak thus? He blasphemeth. Who can forgive sins, but God only?

speak.

Mark 14:64 You have heard the blasphemy. What think you? Who all condemned him to be guilty of death.

Matthew 9:3 And behold some of the scribes said within themselves: He blasphemeth.

Matthew 26:65 Then the high priest rent his garments, saying: He hath blasphemed: What further need have we of witnesses? Behold, now you have heard the blasphemy.

John 10:33,36 The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy: and because that thou. being a, man, makest thyself God. . . .

who.

Job 14:4 Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?

Psalm 130:4 For with thee there is merciful forgiveness: and by reason of thy law, I have waited for thee, O Lord. My soul hath relied on his word:

Isaiah 43:25 I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

Daniel 9:9 But to thee, the Lord our God, mercy and forgiveness, for we have departed from thee:

Micah 7:18 Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy.

Luke 5:21 And the scribes and Pharisees began to think, saying: Who is this who speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?

Luke 7:49 And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves: Who is this that forgiveth sins also?

John 20:20-23 And when he had said this, he shewed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad, when they saw the Lord. . . .

Context
Jesus Heals a Paralytic
6And there were some of the scribes sitting there and thinking in their hearts: 7Why doth this man speak thus? He blasphemeth. Who can forgive sins, but God only? 8Which Jesus presently knowing in his spirit that they so thought within themselves, saith to them: Why think you these things in your hearts?…
Cross References
Isaiah 43:25
I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

Matthew 9:3
And behold some of the scribes said within themselves: He blasphemeth.

Mark 2:6
And there were some of the scribes sitting there and thinking in their hearts:

Mark 2:8
Which Jesus presently knowing in his spirit that they so thought within themselves, saith to them: Why think you these things in your hearts?

Mark 2:6
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