Mark 2:7
What speaketh he thus? He blasphemeth; who may forgive sins, [no] but God alone? (Why speaketh he thus? He blasphemeth; for who can forgive sins, except God alone?)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
In Context
6But there were some of the scribes sitting (there), and thinking in their hearts,
Cross References
Psalms 130:4For mercy is at thee; (But there is mercy with thee, and I stand in awe of thee;)
Daniel 9:9but mercy and benignity is to thee, our Lord God, (or but mercy and generosity of spirit, or forgiveness, is to thee, O Lord our God). For we went away from thee,
Matthew 9:3And lo! some of the scribes said within themselves, This blasphemeth.
Mark 14:64Ye have heard blasphemy. What seemeth to you? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.
Luke 7:49And they that sat together at the meat (or And they who sat together at the meal), began to say within themselves, Who is this that [also], (or who even), forgiveth sins.
John 10:36that that the Father hath hallowed, and hath sent into the world, ye say, That thou blasphemest, for I said, I am God’s Son?
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 →