For example, He cured the man of the palsy to prove that as man He had the power to forgive sins.
He also gave them power to baptize, to forgive sins, to bless, to be "dispensers of the mysteries of God.
But that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, (then says he to the palsied man) Arise, take up thy bed, and go to thy house.
In like manner when, on the other occasion to which I have already referred, the Pharisees stumbled at His claims to forgive sins, He said nothing to soften down that claim.
In vain, poor sinner, is any reliance upon churches or men; neither Papist nor Protestant have any power "committed unto them" to forgive sins.
It is testified of him in the days of his flesh, that he had power on earth to forgive sins (Mark 2:5-12).
When asserting His power to forgive sins, Jesus, for the first time in our Gospel, called Himself the Son of man.
The Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins.
He restores the palsied man to health, that they might know that the Son of man hath authority on earth to forgive sins.
He said pointedly 'on earth to forgive sins,' in order to show that by an indivisible union He united human nature to the power of the Godhead, since although He was made Man, yet He remained the Word of God.
But why should our Lord, whose right by nature it is to forgive sins, avoid those whom He could make holier than such as abstain?
But that you may know that the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins," etc.
That ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, (He said to the sick man), Arise.
So that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, (Jesus turned to the sick man and said,) I say to thee, Arise.
So ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, (then He said to the sick man) Arise, take up thy bed and go to thy house.
Thus, for instance, Jesus is found to assert that authority on earth to forgive sins belongs to man (Mark ii.
He rarely argued with them, and always assumed a tone of authority which was above challenge, asserting that the Son of Man had authority to forgive sins, was lord of the Sabbath, was greater than the temple or Jonah or Solomon.
It was after the resurrection that He breathed on them and gave them the power to forgive sins.
In like manner Our Lord commissioned His priests and gave them the power to forgive sins, and whatever they do in the Sacrament of Penance He Himself does.
And so Jesus performed the miracle of healing the palsied man and the lepers in order to teach his disciples the great lesson that he "had power on earth to forgive sins.
Certainly the object Jesus had in view, in performing this miracle, was to prove that he had power to forgive sins; or to pardon.
It is the power of the Son of Man on earth to forgive sins.
He bade the palsied man walk, that they might know that "the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins.
Now let us turn again, with this added light, to examine the meaning of that expression, "The Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forgive sins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
