Is Confession Biblical? Debunking Protestant Comebacks to John 20:23

Episode 127: Second Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday | Year C

In today’s episode, we focus only on the Gospel reading for this upcoming Divine Mercy Sunday, which is John 20:19-31, the famous passage where Jesus tells the apostles, “If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven. If you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” The obvious apologetical topic is the Sacrament of Confession. But for this episode, our particular focus will be on Protestant comebacks to the sacramental reading of this text.