Those who were reclining at the table with Him began to say to themselves, “Who is this man who even forgives sins?”

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

The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”

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

But, so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,”—He said to the paralytic—“I say to you, get up, and pick up your stretcher and go home.”