SinaiMark 2:7
World English Bible
“Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
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Mark 2:7 in other translations
Why doth this man thus speak? he blasphemeth: who can forgive sins but one, even God?
Mark 2:7 in context
- 5Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”
- 6But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,
- 7“Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
- 8Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you reason these things in your hearts?
- 9Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?’