Mark 2:7

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

You have heard his blasphemy for yourselves. What is your mind?" They condemned him, all of them, to the doom of death;

Some scribes said to themselves, "The man is talking blasphemy!"

Then the high priest tore his dress and cried, "He has blasphemed! What more evidence do we want? Look, you have heard his blasphemy for yourselves!

The Jews retorted, "We mean to stone you, not for a good deed, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, make yourself God."

Then the scribes and Pharisees began to argue, "Who is this blasphemer? Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?"

His fellow guests began to say to themselves, "Who is this, to forgive even sins?"

So saying he showed them his hands and his side; and when the disciples saw the Lord, they rejoiced.

If you remit the sins of any, they are remitted: if you retain them, they are retained."