Mark 2:6-10

But some of the scribes were sitting there and thinking it over in their hearts,

“Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins except God alone?”

Immediately Jesus, aware in His spirit that they were thinking that way within themselves, *said to them, “Why are you thinking about these things in your hearts?

Which is easier, to say to the paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven’; or to say, ‘Get up, and pick up your pallet and walk’?

But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—He *said to the paralyzed man,