7. “Why does this Man speak such blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
8. Immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, He said to them, “Why do you contemplate these things in your hearts?
9. Which is easier to say to the paralytic: ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk’?
10. But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” He said to the paralytic,
11. “I say to you, rise, and take up your bed, and go your way to your house.”
12. Immediately he rose, picked up the bed, and went out in front of them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”
13. He went out again by the seaside, and the whole crowd came to Him, and He taught them.