Luke 5:21

The scribes and Pharisees charge Jesus with blasphemy, since only God can forgive sins. Their objection unintentionally affirms his divine claim.

Cross-references · 21

• Isa 43:25I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
• Luke 7:49Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”
• Mark 2:6–7But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,
• Acts 6:11–13Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
• John 10:33The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.”
• Matt 26:65Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.
• Ps 32:5I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
• 1 Kgs 21:10–14Set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”
• Dan 9:19Lord, hear; Lord, forgive; Lord, listen and do; don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.
• Lev 24:16He who blasphemes Yahweh’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
• Isa 44:22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
• Ps 130:4But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.
• Exod 34:6–7Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
• Rom 8:33Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.
• Dan 9:9To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him;
• Ps 103:3who forgives all your sins; who heals all your diseases;
• Isa 1:18“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
• Mic 7:19He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
• Ps 35:5Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh’s angel driving them on.
• Matt 9:3Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man blasphemes.”
• Luke 5:17On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.

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