Luke 5:23

Which is the easier? – to say ‘Your sins have been forgiven you’? Or to say ‘Get up, and walk’?

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In The King James Version

Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?

In Context

22When Jesus became aware of the way in which they were debating, he turned to them and exclaimed, “What are you debating with yourselves?

24But so that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins” – he spoke to the paralyzed man – “To you I say, Get up, and take up your pallet, and go to your home.”

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Cross References

Mark 2:9Which is easier? – to say to the paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven’? Or to say ‘Get up, and take 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 →

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