Mark 2:5-11

Twentieth_Century(i) 5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man: "Child, your sins are forgiven." 6 But some of the Teachers of the Law who were sitting there were debating in their minds: 7 "Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins except God?" 8 Jesus, at once intuitively aware that they wee debating with themselves in this way, said to them: "Why are you debating in your minds about this? 9 Which is easier?--to say to the paralyzed man, 'Your sins are forgiven'? or to say 'Get up, and take up your mat, and walk about'? 10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has power to forgive sins on earth"--here he said to the paralyzed man-- 11 "To you I say, Get up, take up your mat, and return to your home."