6. But some of the scribes were sitting there, thinking to themselves:
7. “Why does He speak like this? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone? ”
8. Right away Jesus understood in His spirit that they were thinking like this within themselves and 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,’ or to say, ‘Get up, pick up your mat, and walk’?