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OET (OET-LV) And the scribes and the Farisaios_party began to_be_reasoning saying:
Who is this who is_speaking slander?
Who is_able to_be_forgiving sins except not/lest only the god?
OET (OET-RV) “Who is this guy who’s insulting God?” the teachers and Pharisees started to say among themselves. “Only God is able to forgive sins.”
Note 1 topic: translate-unknown
οἱ γραμματεῖς
the scribes
Here and elsewhere in the book, the term the scribes does not refer to people who make copies of documents. Rather, it refers to people who were teachers of the Jewish law, which they had studied extensively. Alternate translation: “the teachers of the Jewish law”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
διαλογίζεσθαι
/to_be/_reasoning
These men were not debating or arguing out loud, since the next verse shows that this was rather something they were thinking. So this implicitly means that they were wondering. Alternate translation: “to wonder”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / quotemarks
λέγοντες
saying
Luke uses the word saying to introduce his quotation of what the religious leaders were thinking. If you indicate the quotation in some other way, such as with quotation marks or with some other punctuation or convention that your language uses, you do not need to represent this word in your translation.
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
τίς ἐστιν οὗτος ὃς λαλεῖ βλασφημίας?
who is this who /is/_speaking slander
These religious leaders do not expect someone to tell them who Jesus is. Instead, they are using the question form to emphasize how inappropriate they think it is for Jesus to tell someone that he forgives their sins. As the next sentence explains, they think this means Jesus was claiming to be God, and so in their view, he would be speaking blasphemies. If it would be helpful in your language, you could translate their words as a statement or exclamation. Alternate translation: “This man is speaking blasphemies!”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
τίς δύναται ἀφιέναι ἁμαρτίας εἰ μὴ μόνος ὁ Θεός?
who who /is/_able /to_be/_forgiving sins except ¬not/lest only ¬the God
Once again the religious leaders are using a question form for emphasis, and you can translate their words as a statement or exclamation. Alternate translation: “No one can forgive sins but God alone!”
5:17-26 The healing of the paralyzed man initiated the conflicts Jesus had with religious leaders throughout his public ministry until he was crucified in Jerusalem.
OET (OET-LV) And the scribes and the Farisaios_party began to_be_reasoning saying:
Who is this who is_speaking slander?
Who is_able to_be_forgiving sins except not/lest only the god?
OET (OET-RV) “Who is this guy who’s insulting God?” the teachers and Pharisees started to say among themselves. “Only God is able to forgive sins.”
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.