Mark 2:7
“Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? Who is able to forgive sins except God alone?”
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
In Context
6And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,
Cross References
Matthew 9:3And at once some of the scribes said among themselves, “This Man blasphemes!”
Mark 14:64You have heard the blasphemy! How does it appear to you?” And they all condemned Him to be deserving of death.
Luke 7:49And those who were reclining at the table with Him began to say within themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”
John 10:36do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ 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 →