Which is easier: to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, pick up your mat, and walk’?

Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gerasenes.

Then He took the child by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum!” (which is translated, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”).

And what I say to you, I say to everyone: Be alert!”

They began to be distressed and to say to Him one by one, “Surely not I?”

And He came again and found them sleeping, because they could not keep their eyes open. They did not know what to say to Him.