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On perceiving their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” Now some scribes[a] were sitting there, thinking to themselves: “How can this man say such things? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 2:6 Scribes: men trained in the oral traditions that flowed from the written Law. In this Gospel, they are adversaries of Jesus except in one incident (Mk 12:28-34).

When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”(A)

Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, “Why does this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”(B)

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