Mark 2:7
“Why does this man speak such blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
In Context
6Now some of the scribes were sitting there and questioning in their hearts:
Cross References
Matthew 9:3And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming.”
Mark 14:64You have heard his blasphemy. What seems right to you?” And they all condemned him as deserving death.
Luke 7:49But those who were reclining at the table with him began to say among themselves, “Who is this man that even forgives sins?”
John 10:36do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘Yoʋ 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 →