Luke 5:23
Which is easier to say: ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up and walk?’
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?
In Context
Cross References
Mark 2:9Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up, take up your stretcher, and walk?’
Matthew Henry on Luke 5:18-27
Cure of a Paralytic. 17 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judæa, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them. 18 And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him. 19 And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the… Read the whole commentary →