A moment in scripture
Mark 2:9
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Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?
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The surrounding passage
- Mark 2:7
Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
- Mark 2:8
And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
- Mark 2:10
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)
- Mark 2:11
I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.