Luke 5:21

New English Translation

Then the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to think to themselves, “Who is this man who is uttering blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

Cross References

Psalm 103:3

He is the one who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,

Psalm 130:4

But you are willing to forgive, so that you might be honored.

Psalm 32:5

Then I confessed my sin; I no longer covered up my wrongdoing. I said, “I will confess my rebellious acts to the Lord.” And then you forgave my sins. (Selah)

Psalm 35:5

May they be like wind-driven chaff, as the Lord’s angel attacks them!

Isaiah 1:18

Come, let’s consider your options,” says the Lord. “Though your sins have stained you like the color red, you can become white like snow; though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet, you can become white like wool.

Isaiah 43:25

I, I am the one who blots out your rebellious deeds for my sake; your sins I do not remember.

Isaiah 44:22

I remove the guilt of your rebellious deeds as if they were a cloud, the guilt of your sins as if they were a cloud. Come back to me, for I protect you.”

Daniel 9:19

O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, pay attention, and act! Don’t delay, for your own sake, O my God! For your city and your people are called by your name.”

Daniel 9:9

Yet the Lord our God is compassionate and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.

Leviticus 24:16

and one who misuses the name of the Lord must surely be put to death. The whole congregation must surely stone him, whether he is a foreigner or a native citizen; when he misuses the Name he must be put to death.

Micah 7:19

You will once again have mercy on us; you will conquer our evil deeds; you will hurl our sins into the depths of the sea.

Matthew 26:65

Then the high priest tore his clothes and declared, “He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? Now you have heard the blasphemy!

Matthew 9:3

Then some of the experts in the law said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming!”

Luke 3:8

Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance, and don’t begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

Luke 5:17

Now on one of those days, while he was teaching, there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting nearby (who 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 hostile thoughts, he said to them, “Why are you raising objections within yourselves?

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 Jewish leaders replied, “We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God.”

Romans 8:33

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