Luke 5:21 - English Majority Text Version 2009

²¹ And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this [Man ]who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins except God alone?"

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason and question and argue, saying, Who is this [Man] Who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this that speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?

Common English Bible

²¹ The legal experts and Pharisees began to mutter among themselves, “Who is this who insults God? Only God can forgive sins!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And the scribes and Pharisees began to think, saying: "Who is this, who is speaking blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins, except God alone?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And the scribes and Pharisees began to think, saying: Who is this who speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?

Luke 5:21 Cross References

Matthew 26:65

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!

Matthew 9:3

And at once some of the scribes said among themselves, "This Man blasphemes!"

Luke 3:8

Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say among yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham out of these stones.

Luke 5:17

Now it happened on a certain day that He was teaching, and Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there[,] who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was [present] to heal them.

Luke 5:22

But when Jesus perceived their reasonings, He answered and said to them, "Why are you reasoning in your hearts?

Luke 7:49

And those who were reclining at the table with Him began to say within themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"

John 10:33

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."

Romans 8:33

Who shall bring an accusation against God's elect? It is God who justifies.