Luke 5:17-26

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁷ And it happened that on a certain day, as He was teaching, the Pharisees and teachers of the Law sat by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was in him, to heal them.

¹⁸ Then behold, men brought a man lying in a bed, who was a paralytic, and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before Him.

¹⁹ And when they could not find a way by which they might bring him in (because of the crowd), they went up on the house and let him down through the tiling (bed and all) in the midst, before Jesus.

²⁰ And when He saw their faith, He said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”

²¹ Then the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this Who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God only?”

²² But when Jesus perceived their reasoning, He answered, and said to them, “Why do you reason in your hearts?

²³ “Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you’, or to say, ‘Rise and walk?’”

²⁴ But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on Earth, I say to you (said He to the paralytic), Arise. Take up your bed. And go to your house.”

²⁵ And immediately he rose up before them and took up his bed upon which he lay and departed to his own house, praising God.

²⁶ And they were all amazed, and praised God, and were filled with fear, saying, “Doubtless we have seen strange things today!”