Mark 2:7
Why does this man thus speak impiously? Who can forgive sins but God only?
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
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 scribes were sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts:
Cross References
Matthew 9:3And behold, some of the scribes said within themselves: This man talks impiously.
Mark 14:64You have heard his impious speech. What think you? They all condemned him to be a subject of death.
Luke 7:49And those who reclined at table with him began to say within themselves: Who is this that also forgives sins?
John 10:36do you say of him, whom the Father has sanctified, and sent into the world, You speak impiously, 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 →