22. When Jesus perceived their hostile thoughts, he said to them, “Why are you raising objections within yourselves?
23. Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Stand up and walk’?
24. But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” – he said to the paralyzed man – “I tell you, stand up, take your stretcher and go home.”
25. Immediately he stood up before them, picked up the stretcher he had been lying on, and went home, glorifying God.