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?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
20Whose faith when he saw, he said: Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.
22And when Jesus knew their thoughts, answering, he said to them: What is it you think in your hearts?
Cross References
Exodus 34:6And when he passed before him, he said: O the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, patient and of much compassion, and true,
1 Kings 21:10And suborn two men, sons of Belial against him, and let them bear false witness: that he hath blasphemed God and the king: and then carry him out, and stone him, and so let him die.
Psalms 35:5Let them become as dust before the wind : and let the angel of the Lord straiten them.
Psalms 130:4The Lord who is just will cut the necks of sinners:
Isaiah 43:25I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.
Daniel 9:9But to thee, the Lord our God, mercy and forgiveness, for we have departed from thee:
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 →