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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?”

Jesus was able immediately to discern in his spirit what they were thinking, and he asked, “Why do you entertain such thoughts in your hearts?

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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).