Mark 2:7
5 When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”
6 But some of the scribes were sitting there and thinking in their hearts,
“Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
8 At once Jesus knew in His spirit that they were thinking this way within themselves. “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?” He asked.
9 “Which is easier: to say to a paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, pick up your mat, and walk’?
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
- KJV
- Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
- WEB
- “Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
- ASV
- Why doth this man thus speak? he blasphemeth: who can forgive sins but one, [even] God?
- DARBY
- Why does this [man] thus speak? he blasphemes. Who is able to forgive sins except God alone?
- BLB
- “Why does this [man] speak thus? He blasphemes! Who is able to forgive sins except One—God?”
- ÅB
- Hvorfor taler denne mann så? Han spotter Gud; hvem kan tilgi synder uten en, det er Gud?
- OTB
- "Hvorfor taler han på denne måten? Han spotter! Hvem kan tilgi synder utenom Gud alene?"
- B1930
- Hvorfor taler denne mann så? Han spotter Gud; hvem kan forlate synder uten en, det er Gud?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 43:25
I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
Read in contextLuke 5:21
But the scribes and Pharisees began thinking to themselves, “Who is this man who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
Read in contextDaniel 9:9
To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, even though we have rebelled against Him
Read in contextMicah 7:18
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
Read in contextLuke 7:49
But those at the table began to say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”
Read in contextJohn 20:20–23
After He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
Read in contextJohn 10:33
“We are not stoning You for any good work,” said the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because You, who are a man, declare Yourself to be God.”
Read in contextJob 14:4
Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
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