Which is easier, ¹  to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven’ or to say, ‘Stand up and walk’?

What I say to you I say to everyone: Stay alert!”

Which is easier, ¹  to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Stand up and walk’?

I say this as a concession, not as a command.

I am speaking to thoughtful people. Consider what I say.

Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, rejoice!

So ¹  Jesus answered him, ²  “Simon, I have something to say to you.” He replied, ³  “Say it, Teacher.”

Which is easier, ¹  to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Stand up, take your stretcher, and walk’?

They discussed with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’

So ¹  they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. ¹  Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.” ² 

And why not say, “Let us do evil so that good may come of it”? – as some who slander us allege that we say. ¹  (Their ²  condemnation is deserved!)

The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you,” nor in turn can the head say to the foot, “I do not need you.”

But I say to you, love your enemy and ¹  pray for those who persecute you,

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’ ¹ 

He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”

The same day Sadducees ¹  (who say there is no resurrection) ²  came to him and asked him, ³ 

They ¹  became greatly distressed ²  and each one began to say to him, “Surely not I, Lord?”

How then would the scriptures that say it must happen this way be fulfilled?”

They said, ¹  “John the Baptist, others say Elijah, ²  and still others, one of the prophets.”