3. Then certain scribes said within themselves, “This Man blasphemes.”
4. Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
5. For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk’?
6. But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—then He said to the paralytic, “Arise, pick up your bed, and go into your house.”