The scribes asked, "Who can forgive sins but God alone?" (2:7). Was Jesus claiming to be God?

The chapter tells what Jesus said and did, and lets it stand. He said, "Son, your sins are forgiven you" (2:5). The scribes reasoned, "Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?" (2:7). Jesus didn't tell them they were wrong that God alone forgives sins. He said, "that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" (2:10), and the man got up and went out in front of them all (2:11-12), and they "glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”" (2:12). In this chapter Jesus doesn't say, "I am God." He says the Son of Man has authority on earth to do what the scribes said God alone can do, and Mark leaves you with their question. Mark's first verse has already named him "Jesus Christ, the Son of God" (1:1). The chapter on Job 7 draws a line on the map from Job's "Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity?" (Job 7:21) to 2:10, and the chapter on Leviticus 24 sets the scribes' charge of blasphemy beside Jesus's trial.