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Mark 2:7
Why doth this [man] thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
Mark 2:7 · Webster Bible
Mark 2:7 in other translations
Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
“Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
“Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
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In context
4 And when they could not come nigh to him by reason of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken [it] up, they let down the bed on which the sick with the palsy lay.
5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the sick with the palsy, Son, thy sins are forgiven thee.
6 But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,
7 Why doth this [man] thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
8 And immediately, when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said to them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
9 Which is easier, to say to the sick with the palsy, [Thy] sins are forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?
10 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, he saith to the sick with the palsy,
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