Luke 5:21
And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason [in their minds], saying, Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins but God alone?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
20And seeing their faith, he said, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.
22But Jesus, knowing their reasonings, answering said to them, Why reason ye in your hearts?
Cross References
Exodus 34:6And Jehovah passed by before his face, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth,
1 Kings 21:10and set two men, sons of Belial, before him, and they shall bear witness against him saying, Thou didst curse God and the king; and carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
Psalms 35:5Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of Jehovah drive [them] away;
Psalms 130:4But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
Isaiah 43:25I, I [am] He that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.
Daniel 9:9With the Lord our God are mercies and pardons, for we have rebelled against him;
Matthew Henry on Luke 5:18-27
Cure of a Paralytic. 17 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judæa, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them. 18 And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him. 19 And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the… Read the whole commentary →