Verse 21

And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, `Who is this that doth speak evil words? who is able to forgive sins, except God only?'

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 43:25 : 25 I -- I `am' He who is blotting out Thy transgressions for Mine own sake, And thy sins I do not remember.
  • Ps 32:5 : 5 My sin I cause Thee to know, And mine iniquity I have not covered. I have said, `I confess concerning My transgressions to Jehovah,' And Thou -- Thou hast taken away, The iniquity of my sin. Selah.
  • Matt 26:65 : 65 Then the chief priest rent his garments, saying, -- `He hath spoken evil; what need have we yet of witnesses? lo, now ye heard his evil speaking;
  • Mark 2:6-7 : 6 And there were certain of the scribes there sitting, and reasoning in their hearts, 7 `Why doth this one thus speak evil words? who is able to forgive sins except one -- God?'
  • Luke 7:49 : 49 and those reclining with him (at meat) began to say within themselves, `Who is this, who also doth forgive sins?'
  • John 10:33 : 33 The Jews answered him, saying, `For a good work we do not stone thee, but for evil speaking, and because thou, being a man, dost make thyself God.'
  • Acts 6:11-13 : 11 then they suborned men, saying -- `We have heard him speaking evil sayings in regard to Moses and God.' 12 They did stir up also the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and having come upon `him', they caught him, and brought `him' to the sanhedrim; 13 they set up also false witnesses, saying, `This one doth not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law,
  • Rom 8:33 : 33 Who shall lay a charge against the choice ones of God? God `is' He that is declaring righteous,
  • Luke 5:17 : 17 And it came to pass, on one of the days, that he was teaching, and there were sitting by Pharisees and teachers of the Law, who were come out of every village of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was -- to heal them.
  • Exod 34:6-7 : 6 and Jehovah passeth over before his face, and calleth: `Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth, 7 keeping kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on children's children, on a third `generation', and on a fourth.'
  • Lev 24:16 : 16 and he who is execrating the name of Jehovah is certainly put to death; all the company do certainly cast stones at him; as a sojourner so a native, in his execrating the Name, is put to death.
  • 1 Kgs 21:10-14 : 10 and cause two men -- sons of worthlessness -- to sit over-against him, and they testify of him, saying, Thou hast blessed God and Melech; and they have brought him out, and stoned him, and he dieth.' 11 And the men of his city, the elders and the freemen who are dwelling in his city, do as Jezebel hath sent unto them, as written in the letters that she sent unto them, 12 they have proclaimed a fast, and caused Naboth to sit at the head of the people, 13 and two men -- sons of worthlessness -- come in, and sit over-against him, and the men of worthlessness testify of him, even Naboth, before the people, saying, `Naboth blessed God and Melech;' and they take him out to the outside of the city, and stone him with stones, and he dieth; 14 and they send unto Jezebel, saying, `Naboth was stoned, and is dead.'
  • Ps 35:5 : 5 They are as chaff before wind, And a messenger of Jehovah driving away.
  • Ps 103:3 : 3 Who is forgiving all thine iniquities, Who is healing all thy diseases,
  • Ps 130:4 : 4 But with Thee `is' forgiveness, that Thou mayest be feared.
  • Isa 1:18 : 18 Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!
  • Isa 44:22 : 22 I have blotted out, as `by' a thick cloud, Thy transgressions, And as `by' a cloud thy sins, Return unto Me, for I have redeemed thee.
  • Dan 9:9 : 9 `To the Lord our God `are' the mercies and the forgivenesses, for we have rebelled against Him,
  • Dan 9:19 : 19 O lord, hear, O Lord, forgive; O Lord, attend and do; do not delay, for Thine own sake, O my God, for Thy name is called on Thy city, and on Thy people.'
  • Mic 7:19 : 19 He doth turn back, He pitieth us, He doth subdue our iniquities, And Thou castest into the depths of the sea all their sins.
  • Matt 9:3 : 3 And lo, certain of the scribes said within themselves, `This one doth speak evil.'