Luke 5:24
But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on the earth to forgive sins” He said to the paralytic, “I tell you, get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
23Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’?
Cross References
Daniel 7:13In my vision in the night I continued to watch, and I saw One like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into His presence.
Matthew 16:13When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, He questioned His disciples: “Who do people pronounce Me, the Son of Man, to be?”
Matthew 26:64“You have said it yourself,” Jesus answered. “But I say to all of you, from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
Luke 5:13Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.
Luke 8:54But Jesus sent them all outside, took her by the hand, and called out, “Child, get up!”
John 5:8Then Jesus told him, “Get up, pick up your mat, 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 →