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A seated scribe silently questions Jesus’s words with a troubled expression.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

Mark 2:7

Who Can Forgive Sins?

Authority to Forgive · Mark 2

Story guide: A scribe’s guarded expression holds the inward objection to Jesus’s declaration of forgiveness.

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7Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins except God alone?

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