Mark 2:7

Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?

Ver. 7. Who can forgive sins, &c.] Man may remit the trespass, God only the transgression.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

but God only . except One [that is] God. God. App-98.
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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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The Healing of a Paralytic. 1 And again he entered into Capernaum after some da...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Christ's defense against the scribes:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God only!'
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Wells of Living Water Commentary

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⁷ Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?

Related Commentaries of Mark 2:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

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