Mark 2:7

James Moffatt - New Testament

"What does the man mean by talking like this? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?"

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Then the scribes and Pharisees began to argue, "Who is this blasphemer? Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?"

His fellow guests began to say to themselves, "Who is this, to forgive even sins?"

The Jews retorted, "We mean to stone you, not for a good deed, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, make yourself God."

You have heard his blasphemy for yourselves. What is your mind?" They condemned him, all of them, to the doom of death;

Then the high priest tore his dress and cried, "He has blasphemed! What more evidence do we want? Look, you have heard his blasphemy for yourselves!

Some scribes said to themselves, "The man is talking blasphemy!"

do you mean to tell me, whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

Now there were some scribes sitting there who argued in their hearts,

Conscious at once that they were arguing to themselves in this way, Jesus asked them, "Why do you argue thus in your hearts?