Matthew 9:6
Good News Translation
I will prove to you, then, that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins." So he said to the paralyzed man, "Get up, pick up your bed, and go home!"

New Revised Standard Version
But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he then said to the paralytic—“Stand up, take your bed and go to your home.”

Contemporary English Version
But I will show you that the Son of Man has the right to forgive sins here on earth." So Jesus said to the man, "Get up! Pick up your mat and go on home."

New American Bible
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he then said to the paralytic, “Rise, pick up your stretcher, and go home.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But that you may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then said he to the man sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go into thy house.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But that you may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then said he to the man sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go into thy house.

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Isaiah 43:25 I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

Micah 7:18 Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy.

Mark 2:7,10 Why doth this man speak thus? He blasphemeth. Who can forgive sins, but God only? . . .

Luke 5:21 And the scribes and Pharisees began to think, saying: Who is this who speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?

John 5:21-23 For as the Father raiseth up the dead and giveth life: so the Son also giveth life to whom he will. . . .

John 10:28 And I give them life everlasting: and they shall not perish for ever. And no man shall pluck them out of my hand.

John 17:2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.

John 20:21-23 He said therefore to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent me, I also send you. . . .

Acts 5:31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand, to be Prince and Saviour. to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins.

Acts 7:59,60 And they stoned Stephen, invoking and saying: Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. . . .

2 Corinthians 2:10 And to whom you have pardoned any thing, I also. For, what I have pardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it in the person of Christ:

2 Corinthians 5:20 For Christ therefore we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting by us, for Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God.

Ephesians 4:32 And be ye kind one to another: merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ.

Colossians 3:13 Bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another. Even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also.

Arise.

Matthew 9:5 Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee: or to say, Arise, and walk?

Luke 13:11-13 And behold there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. And she was bowed together: neither could she look upwards at all. . . .

Acts 9:34 And Peter said to him: Eneas, the Lord Jesus Christ healeth thee. Arise and make thy bed. And immediately he arose.

Context
Jesus Heals a Paralytic
5Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee: or to say, Arise, and walk? 6But that you may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then said he to the man sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go into thy house. 7And he arose, and went into his house.…
Cross References
Matthew 4:24
And his fame went throughout all Syria, and they presented to him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and such as were possessed by devils, and lunatics, and those that had the palsy, and he cured them:

Matthew 8:20
And Jesus saith to him: The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Matthew 9:2
And behold they brought to him one sick of the palsy lying in a bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man sick of the palsy: Be of good heart, son, thy sins are forgiven thee.

Matthew 9:5
Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee: or to say, Arise, and walk?

Matthew 9:7
And he arose, and went into his house.

John 5:8
Jesus saith to him: Arise, take up thy bed and walk.

John 5:27
And he hath given him power to do judgment, because he is the Son of man.

Matthew 9:5
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