Mark 2:3-12
Read Mark 2 in full →3aAnd they *came, bringing to Him a bparalytic, carried by four men. 4And being unable to bring him to 1Jesus because of the crowd, they aremoved the roof over where He was; and when they had dug an opening, they let down the mat where the bparalytic was lying. 5And Jesus seeing their faith *said to the paralytic, “Child, ayour sins are forgiven.” 6But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, 7“Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming; awho can forgive sins 1but God alone?” 8Immediately Jesus, aware 1in His spirit that they were reasoning that way within themselves, *said to them, “Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts? 9“Which is easier, to say to the aparalytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven’; or to say, ‘Get up, and pick up your mat 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, 11“I say to you, get up, pick up your mat, and go to your home.” 12And he got up and immediately picked up the mat and went out before everyone, so that they were all amazed and awere glorifying God, saying, “bWe have never seen anything like this.”