"Judge not, and you shall not be judged; condemn not, and you shall not be condemned; pardon, and you shall be pardoned;

Here they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. Seeing their faith Jesus said to the paralytic, "Take courage, my child; your sins are pardoned."

Why, which is easier? --to say, 'Your sins are pardoned,' or to say 'Rise up and walk'?

But, to prove to you that the Son of Man has authority on earth to pardon sins" --He then says to the paralytic, "Rise, and take up your bed and go home."

Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, "My son, your sins are pardoned."

"Why does this man use such words?" they said; "he is blaspheming. Who can pardon sins but One--that is, God?"

Which is easier?--to say to this paralytic, 'Your sins are pardoned,' or to say, 'Rise, take up your mat, and walk?'

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to pardon sins" --He turned to the paralytic, and said,

In solemn truth I tell you that all their sins may be pardoned to the sons of men, and all their blasphemies, however they may have blasphemed;

that "'They may look and look but not see, and listen and listen but not understand, lest perchance they should return and be pardoned.'"