Luke 5:22-24 ▼

22 But Jesus, knowing their [hostile] thoughts, answered them, “Why are you questioning [these things] in your hearts?

23 Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’?

24 But, in order that you may know that the Son of Man (the Messiah) has authority and power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the paralyzed man, “I say to you, get up, pick up your stretcher and go home.”