Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Arise, and take up your bed, and walk’?
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Mark 2:9 in context
Mark 2:6–12
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“Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
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Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you reason these things in your hearts?
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Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Arise, and take up your bed, and walk’?
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But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic—
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“I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house.”
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He arose, and immediately took up the mat and went out in front of them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”
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