5. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Child, your sins are forgiven.”
6. Now some of the scribes were sitting there asking themselves,
7. “Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming. Who but God alone can forgive sins?”
8. Jesus immediately knew in his mind what they were thinking to themselves, so he said, “Why are you thinking such things in your hearts?
9. Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, pick up your mat and walk’?
10. But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth”—