Mark 2:7

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“Why does this fellow speak in this way? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

Cross References

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one can.

Psalm 130:4

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

Isaiah 43:25

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

Daniel 9:9

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

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of your possession? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in showing clemency.

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.”

Mark 14:64

You have heard his blasphemy! What is your decision?” All of them condemned him as deserving death.

Mark 2:6

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

Mark 2:8

At once Jesus perceived in his spirit that they were discussing these questions among themselves; and he said to them, “Why do you raise such questions in your hearts?

Luke 5:21

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

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.”

John 10:36

can you say that the one whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world is blaspheming because I said, ‘I am God's Son’?