Luke 5:21 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

²¹ Then the scribes and the Pharisees began to question, “Who is this who is speaking blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but 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

Psalm 103:3

who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,

Psalm 130:4

But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be revered.

Psalm 32:5

Then I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not hide my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah

Psalm 35:5

Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the Lord driving them on.

Isaiah 1:18

Come now, let us argue it out, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be like snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

Isaiah 43:25

I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.

Isaiah 44:22

I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.

Daniel 9:19

O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, listen and act and do not delay! For your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people bear your name!”

Daniel 9:9

To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him,

Leviticus 24:16

One who blasphemes the name of the Lord shall be put to death; the whole congregation shall stone the blasphemer. Aliens as well as citizens, when they blaspheme the Name, shall be put to death.

Micah 7:19

He will again have compassion upon us; he will tread our iniquities under foot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Matthew 26:65

Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, “He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? You have now heard his blasphemy.

Matthew 9:3

Then some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming.”

Luke 3:8

Bear fruits worthy of repentance. Do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our ancestor’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

Luke 5:17

One day, while he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting near by (they had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem); and the power of the Lord was with him to heal.

Luke 5:22

When Jesus perceived their questionings, he answered them, “Why do you raise such questions in your hearts?

Luke 7:49

But those who were at the table with him began to say among themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”

John 10:33

The Jews answered, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you, but for blasphemy, because you, though only a human being, are making yourself God.”

Romans 8:33

Who will bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.