Luke 5:21
Good News Translation
The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees began to say to themselves, "Who is this man who speaks such blasphemy! God is the only one who can forgive sins!"

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

Contemporary English Version
The Pharisees and the experts began arguing, "Jesus must think he is God! Only God can forgive sins."

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the scribes and Pharisees began to think, saying: Who is this who speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the scribes and Pharisees began to think, saying: Who is this who speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?

scribes.

Luke 5:17 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he sat teaching, that there were also Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, that were come out of every town of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was to heal them.

Luke 7:49 And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves: Who is this that forgiveth sins also?

Mark 2:6,7 And there were some of the scribes sitting there and thinking in their hearts: . . .

blasphemies.

Leviticus 24:16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die. All the multitude shall stone him, whether he be a native or a stranger. He that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die.

1 Kings 21:10-14 And suborn two men, sons of Belial, against him. and let them bear false witness; that he hath blasphemed God and the king: and then carry him out, and stone him, and so let him die. . . .

Matthew 9:3 And behold some of the scribes said within themselves: He blasphemeth.

Matthew 26:65 Then the high priest rent his garments, saying: He hath blasphemed: What further need have we of witnesses? Behold, now you have heard the blasphemy.

John 10:33 The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy: and because that thou. being a, man, makest thyself God.

Acts 6:11-13 Then they suborned men to say they had heard him speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God. . . .

Who can.

Exodus 34:6,7 And when he passed before him, he said: O the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, patient and of much compassion, and true, . . .

Psalm 32:5 I have acknowledged my sin to thee, and my injustice I have not concealed. I said I will confess against my self my injustice to the Lord: and thou hast forgiven the wickedness of my sin.

Psalm 35:5 Let them become as dust before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord straiten them.

Psalm 103:3 Who forgiveth all thy iniquities: who healeth all thy diseases.

Psalm 130:4 For with thee there is merciful forgiveness: and by reason of thy law, I have waited for thee, O Lord. My soul hath relied on his word:

Isaiah 1:18 And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.

Isaiah 43:25 I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

Isaiah 44:22 I have blotted out thy iniquities as a cloud, and thy sins as a mist: return to me, for I have redeemed thee.

Daniel 9:9,19 But to thee, the Lord our God, mercy and forgiveness, for we have departed from thee: . . .

Micah 7:19 He will turn again, and have mercy on us: he will put away our iniquities: and he will cast all our sins into the bottom of the sea.

Romans 8:33 Who shall accuse against the elect of God? God is he that justifieth:

Context
Jesus Heals a Paralytic
20Whose faith when he saw, he said: Man, thy sins are forgiven thee. 21And the scribes and Pharisees began to think, saying: Who is this who speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone? 22And when Jesus knew their thoughts, answering he said to them: What is it you think in your hearts?…
Cross References
Isaiah 43:25
I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

Luke 3:8
Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of penance: and do not begin to say, We have Abraham for our father. For I say unto you that God is able of these stones, to raise up children to Abraham.

Luke 5:22
And when Jesus knew their thoughts, answering he said to them: What is it you think in your hearts?

Luke 7:49
And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves: Who is this that forgiveth sins also?

Luke 5:20
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