Then the high priest tore his clothes, saying, "He has blasphemed! What further need do we have of witnesses? Look, now you have heard His blasphemy!
Mark 2:7 - English Majority Text Version 2009 Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? Who is able to forgive sins except God alone?" More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Why does this Man talk like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins [remove guilt, remit the penalty, and bestow righteousness instead] except God alone? American Standard Version (1901) Why doth this man thus speak? he blasphemeth: who can forgive sins but one, even God? Common English Bible “Why does he speak this way? He’s insulting God. Only the one God can forgive sins.” Catholic Public Domain Version "Why is this man speaking in this way? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins, but God alone?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Why doth this man speak thus? he blasphemeth. Who can forgive sins, but God only? |
Then the high priest tore his clothes, saying, "He has blasphemed! What further need do we have of witnesses? Look, now you have heard His blasphemy!
And at once some of the scribes said among themselves, "This Man blasphemes!"
You have heard the blasphemy! How does it appear to you?"And they all condemned Him to be deserving of death.
And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,
And immediately, when Jesus recognized in His spirit that they were reasoning thus among themselves, He said to them, "Why are you reasoning these things in your hearts?
And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this [Man ]who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins except God alone?"
And those who were reclining at the table with Him began to say within themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"
The Jews answered Him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God."
do 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'?