Catholic Public Domain Version
"“Why is this man speaking in this way? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins, but God alone?” "
— Mark 2:7, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?”
“Why doth this man thus speak? he blasphemeth: who can forgive sins but one, even God? ”
“"Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"”
““Why does this man speak this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?””
“Why doth this man speak thus? He blasphemeth. Who can forgive sins, but God only?”
“Why does this man say such things? he has no respect for God: from whom does forgiveness come but from God only?”
“Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?”
And when they were not able to present him to him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was. And opening it, they lowered down the stretcher on which the paralytic was lying.
Then, when Jesus had seen their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”
But some of the scribes were sitting in that place and thinking in their hearts:
“Why is this man speaking in this way? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”
At once, Jesus, realizing in his spirit that they were thinking this within themselves, said to them: “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?
Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up, take up your stretcher, and walk?’
But so that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” he said to the paralytic: