Luke 5:21
And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this that speaks evil words? Who is able to forgive sins, except God only?”
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20and He having seen their faith, said to him, “Man, your sins have been forgiven you.”
22And Jesus having known their reasonings, answering, said to them, “What reason you in your hearts?
Cross References
Exodus 34:6and YHWH passes over before his face, and calls: “YHWH, YHWH God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth,
1 Kings 21:10and cause two men—sons of worthlessness—to sit opposite him, and they testify of him, saying, You have blessed [[ or cursed]] God and [the] king; and they have brought him out, and stoned him, and he dies.”
Psalms 35:5They are as chaff before wind, || And a messenger of YHWH driving away.
Psalms 130:4But forgiveness [is] with You, that You may be feared.
Isaiah 43:25I [am] He who is blotting out Your transgressions for My own sake, || And I do not remember your sins.
Daniel 9:9To the Lord our God [are] the mercies and the forgivenesses, 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 →