Mark 2:7 - The Scriptures 2009

⁷ Why does this One talk like this? He is blaspheming! Who is able to forgive sins but Elohim alone?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ 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)

⁷ Why doth this man thus speak? he blasphemeth: who can forgive sins but one, even God?

Common English Bible

⁷ “Why does he speak this way? He’s insulting God. Only the one God can forgive sins.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ "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

⁷ Why doth this man speak thus? he blasphemeth. Who can forgive sins, but God only?

Mark 2:7 Cross References

Job 14:4

Who brings the clean out of the unclean? No one!

Psalm 130:4

But with You there is forgiveness, That You might be feared.

Isaiah 43:25

“I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and remember your sins no more.

Daniel 9:9

“To יהוה our Elohim are the compassions and forgivenesses, for we have rebelled against Him.

Micah 7:18

Who is an Ěl like You – taking away crookedness and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance? He shall not retain His wrath forever, for He Himself delights in loving-commitment.

Matthew 26:65

Then the high priest tore his garments, saying, “He has blasphemed! Why do we need any more witnesses? See, now you have heard His blasphemy!

Matthew 9:3

And see, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This One blasphemes!”

Mark 14:64

You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think? And they all condemned Him to be liable to death.

Mark 2:6

Now some of the scribes were sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,

Mark 2:8

And immediately יהושע, knowing in His spirit that they were reasoning that way within themselves, said to them, “Why do you reason about all this in your hearts?

Luke 5:21

And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins except Elohim alone?”

Luke 7:49

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

John 10:33

The Yehuḏim answered Him, saying, “We do not stone You for a good work, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself Elohim.”

John 10:36

do you say of Him whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of Elohim’?