Mark 2:7
Why does this man speak blasphemies this way. Who can forgive sins but one, God?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
In Context
6But some of the scholars were sitting there, and deliberating in their hearts,
Cross References
Psalms 130:4But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou may be feared.
Daniel 9:9To LORD our God belong mercies and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him,
Matthew 9:3And behold, some of the scholars said within themselves, This man blasphemes.
Mark 14:64Ye have heard the blasphemy. What does it seem to you? And they all condemned him to be deserving of death.
Luke 7:49And those who sat together began to say within themselves, Who is this who even forgives sins?
John 10:36whom the Father made holy and sent into the world, do ye say, Thou blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God?
Matthew Henry on Mark 2:2-13
The Healing of a Paralytic. 1 And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house. 2 And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them. 3 And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four. 4 And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let… Read the whole commentary →