3 aAnd they * came, bringing to Him a bparalytic, carried by four men.

4 Being unable to 1get to Him because of the crowd, they aremoved the roof 2above Him; and when they had dug an opening, they let down the pallet on which the bparalytic was lying.

5 And Jesus seeing their faith * said to the paralytic, “1Son, ayour sins are forgiven.”

6 But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,

7 “Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming; awho can forgive sins 1but God alone?”

8 Immediately Jesus, aware 1in His spirit that they were reasoning that way within themselves, * said to them, “Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?

9 “Which is easier, to say to the aparalytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven’; or to say, ‘Get up, and pick up your pallet and walk’?

10 “But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—He * said to the paralytic,

11 “I say to you, get up, pick up your pallet and go home.”

12 And he got up and immediately picked up the pallet and went out in the sight of everyone, so that they were all amazed and awere glorifying God, saying, “bWe have never seen anything like this.”