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Mark 2:9

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

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Mark 2:9 in other translations

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?

Mark 2:9 · American Standard Version

Mark 2:9 in context

  1. 7“Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
  2. 8Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you reason these things in your hearts?
  3. 9Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?’
  4. 10But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic—
  5. 11“I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house.”