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3 Then four men came bringing to Him a paralyzed man.
4 And as they could not get him near to Jesus, on account of the crowd, they dug through the roof over the spot where He was standing and let the pallet down that the paralyzed man was lying on.
5 When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralyzed man, "My son, your sins are forgiven."
6 Some scribes were sitting there arguing and saying to themselves,
7 "Why is He talking this way? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
8 Now Jesus at once felt in His spirit that they were arguing about this, and said, "Why are you arguing to yourselves about this?
9 Which is easier, to say to the paralyzed man, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say to him, 'Get up, pick up your pallet and start walking!"
10 But to show you that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth," turning to the paralyzed man He said,
11 "I tell you, get up, pick up your pallet, and go home."
12 Then he got up and at once picked up his pallet, and went out before them all. The result was that they were all dumbfounded and began to praise God and say, "We have never seen anything like this before."