John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

“Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk’?

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” —he said to the paralytic—

“Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter,

but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin” —

so that “‘they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven.’”

And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”