5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the paralytic, Son, thy sins are forgiven thee.
6 But there were certain of the scribes sitting there and thinking in their hearts,
7 Why does this fellow so blaspheme? Who can forgive sins but God only?
8 And Jesus, knowing afterward in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said unto them, Why think ye these things in your hearts?
9 What is easier to say to the paralytic, Thy sins are forgiven thee, or to say, Arise and take up thy bed and walk?
10 But that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins (he spoke to the sick of the palsy),
11 I say unto thee, Arise and take up thy bed and go to thy house.