Mark 2:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘Why does he speak like this? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone? ’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) Why doth this man thus speak? he blasphemeth: who can forgive sins but one, even God? Common English Bible “Why does he speak this way? He’s insulting God. Only the one God can forgive sins.” Catholic Public Domain Version "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 Why doth this man speak thus? he blasphemeth. Who can forgive sins, but God only? |
‘I am the one, I sweep away your transgressions for my own sake and remember your sins no more.
Compassion and forgiveness belong to the Lord our God, though we have rebelled against him
Who is a God like you, forgiving iniquity and passing over rebellion for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not hold on to his anger for ever because he delights in faithful love.
Then the high priest tore his robes and said, ‘He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? See, now you’ve heard the blasphemy.
At this, some of the scribes said to themselves, ‘He’s blaspheming! ’
You have heard the blasphemy. What is your decision? ’ They all condemned him as deserving death.
But some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts:
Straight away Jesus perceived in his spirit that they were thinking like this within themselves and said to them, ‘Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?
Then the scribes and the Pharisees began to think to themselves, ‘Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone? ’
Those who were at the table with him began to say among themselves, ‘Who is this man who even forgives sins? ’
‘We aren’t stoning you for a good work,’ the Jews answered, ‘but for blasphemy, because you #– #being a man #– #make yourself God.’
do you say, “You are blaspheming” to the one the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?