5. Then, when Jesus had seen their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you."
6. But some of the scribes were sitting in that place and thinking in their hearts:
7. "Why is this man speaking in this way? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"
8. At once, Jesus, realizing in his spirit that they were thinking this within themselves, said to them: "Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?
9. Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven you,' or to say, 'Rise up, take up your stretcher, and walk?'
10. But so that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins," he said to the paralytic: