Verse 7
Mark 2:7
New Living Translation
7
“What is he saying? This is blasphemy! Only God (Elohim) can forgive sins!”
Original Language Text
greek
Τί οὗτος οὕτως λαλεῖ; ⸀βλασφημεῖ· τίς δύναται ἀφιέναι ἁμαρτίας εἰ μὴ εἷς ὁ θεός;
English Translation
Why does this man speak like this? He blasphemes; who can forgive sins except one, God?
AI translation from greek via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 2 Context
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When Yashua (Jesus) returned to Capernaum several days later, the news spread quickly that he was ba...
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Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room, even ou...
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3
four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat.
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4
They couldn’t bring him to Yashua (Jesus) because of the crowd, so they dug a hole through the roof...
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5
Seeing their faith, Yashua (Jesus) said to the paralyzed man, “My child, your sins are forgiven.”
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6
But some of the teachers of religious law who were sitting there thought to themselves,
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7
“What is he saying? This is blasphemy! Only God (Elohim) can forgive sins!”
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Yashua (Jesus) knew immediately what they were thinking, so he asked them, “Why do you question this...
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9
Is it easier to say to the paralyzed man ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or ‘Stand up, pick up your mat, a...
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10
So I will prove to you that the Son of Man has the authority on earth to forgive sins.” Then Yashua...
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11
“Stand up, pick up your mat, and go home!”
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12
And the man jumped up, grabbed his mat, and walked out through the stunned onlookers. They were all...
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13
Then Yashua (Jesus) went out to the lakeshore again and taught the crowds that were coming to him.
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14
As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and...
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15
Later, Levi invited Yashua (Jesus) and his disciples to his home as dinner guests, along with many t...
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But when the teachers of religious law who were Pharisees saw him eating with tax collectors and oth...
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17
When Yashua (Jesus) heard this, he told them, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor — sick people do....
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18
Once when John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, some people came to Yashua (Jesus) and as...
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19
Yashua (Jesus) replied, “Do wedding guests fast while celebrating with the groom? Of course not. The...
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20
But someday the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.
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21
“Besides, who would patch old clothing with new cloth? For the new patch would shrink and rip away f...
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22
“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the wine would burst the wineskins, and the wine a...
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23
One Sabbath day as Yashua (Jesus) was walking through some grainfields, his disciples began breaking...
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24
But the Pharisees said to Yashua (Jesus), “Look, why are they breaking the law by harvesting grain o...
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25
Yashua (Jesus) said to them, “Haven’t you ever read in the Scriptures what David did when he and his...
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26
He went into the house of God (Elohim) (during the days when Abiathar was high priest) and broke the...
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Then Yashua (Jesus) said to them, “The Sabbath was made to meet the needs of people, and not people...
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So the Son of Man is Lord, even over the Sabbath!”
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