Mark 2:7

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Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?

Ye have heard his blasphemy. What think ye? And they all adjudged him to be deserving of death.

And lo! some of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth.

Then the high-priest rent his garments, saying, he hath blasphemed: what farther need have we of witnesses? lo! now ye have heard his blasphemy:

The Jews answered him, For a good work we do not stone thee; but for blasphemy; and that thou, being merely a man, makest thyself God.

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

And they who sat at table with him began to say in themselves, Who is this, who even forgives sins?

And thus speaking, he shewed them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord.

whose soever sins ye forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins soever ye retain, they are retained.