7. “Why does He speak like this? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone? ”
8. Right away Jesus understood in His spirit that they were thinking like this within themselves and said to them, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?
9. Which is easier: to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, pick up your mat, and walk’?
10. But so you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” He told the paralytic,
11. “I tell you: get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”