“If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.””
— WEB
John 20:23
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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.
“Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.”
— KJV
“whose soever sins ye forgive, they are forgiven unto them; whose soever [sins] ye retain, they are retained.”
— ASV
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Commentary
Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them, &c.--In any literal and authoritative sense this power was never exercised by one of the apostles, and plainly was never understood by themselves as possessed by them or conveyed to them. (See on Mat 16:19). The power to intrude upon the relation between men and God cannot have been given by Christ to His ministers in any but a ministerial or declarative sense--as the authorized interpreters of His word, while in the actings of His ministers, the real nature of the power committed to them is seen in the exercise of church discipline.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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