Then those who reclined at the table with him began to say among themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"

"Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"he said to the paralytic,

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"he said to the man who was paralyzed "I say to you, rise, take up your bed and go home."