Luke 5:21

New American Bible - revised edition

Then the scribes and Pharisees began to ask themselves, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who but God alone can forgive sins?”

Cross References

Psalm 103:3

Who pardons all your sins, and heals all your ills,

Psalm 130:4

But with you is forgiveness and so you are revered.

Psalm 32:5

Then I declared my sin to you; my guilt I did not hide. I said, “I confess my transgression to the Lord,” and you took away the guilt of my sin. Selah

Psalm 35:5

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

Isaiah 1:18

Come now, let us set things right, says the Lord: Though your sins be like scarlet, they may become white as snow; Though they be red like crimson, they may become white as wool.

Isaiah 43:25

It is I, I, who wipe out, for my own sake, your offenses; your sins I remember no more.

Isaiah 44:22

I have brushed away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like a mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.

Daniel 9:19

Lord, hear! Lord, pardon! Lord, be attentive and act without delay, for your own sake, my God, because your name is invoked upon your city and your people!”

Daniel 9:9

But to the Lord, our God, belong compassion and forgiveness, though we rebelled against him

Leviticus 24:16

whoever utters the name of the Lord in a curse shall be put to death. The whole community shall stone that person; alien and native-born alike must be put to death for uttering the Lord’s name in a curse.

Micah 7:19

And will again have compassion on us, treading underfoot our iniquities? You will cast into the depths of the sea all our sins;

Matthew 26:65

Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “He has blasphemed! What further need have we of witnesses? You have now heard the blasphemy;

Matthew 9:3

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

Luke 3:8

Produce good fruits as evidence of your repentance; and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God can raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

Luke 5:17

One day as Jesus was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was with him for healing.

Luke 5:22

Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them in reply, “What are you thinking in your hearts?

Luke 7:49

The others at table said to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”

John 10:33

The Jews answered him, “We are not stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy. You, a man, are making yourself God.”

Romans 8:33

Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who acquits us.