²⁴ Then the news about him spread throughout Syria.^(A) So they brought to him all those who were afflicted, those suffering from various diseases and intense pains, the demon-possessed, the epileptics, and the paralytics.^(B) And he healed them.

⁶ “Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, in terrible agony.”

² Just then^(A) some men^[a] brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. Seeing their faith, Jesus told the paralytic, “Have courage, son, your sins are forgiven.”^(B)

⁶ But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—then he told the paralytic, “Get up, take your stretcher, and go home.”

³ They came to him bringing a paralytic,^(A) carried by four of them. ⁴ Since they were not able to bring him to^[a] Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and after digging through it, they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying. ⁵ Seeing their faith,^(B) Jesus told the paralytic, “Son, your sins^(C) are forgiven.”^(D)

⁶ But some of the scribes^(E) were sitting there, questioning^(F) in their hearts: ⁷ “Why does he speak like this? He’s blaspheming!^(G) Who can forgive^(H) sins^(I) but God alone?” ^(J)

⁸ Right away^(K) Jesus perceived in his spirit^(L) 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:^(M) to say to the paralytic,^(N) ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat, and walk’?^{(O) 10} But so that you may know that the Son of Man^(P) has authority^(Q) on earth to forgive sins”^(R)—he told the paralytic—