Mark 2:9

American Standard Version

Which is easier, to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins are forgiven; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?

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Mark 2:9 in other translations

Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?’

Mark 2:9 · World English Bible

Mark 2:9 in context

  1. 7Why doth this man thus speak? he blasphemeth: who can forgive sins but one, even God?
  2. 8And straightway Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, saith unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
  3. 9Which is easier, to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins are forgiven; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?
  4. 10But that ye may know that the Son of man hath authority on earth to forgive sins (he saith to the sick of the palsy),
  5. 11I say unto thee, Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thy house.