Mark 2:8-10

And immediately Jesus, having known in his spirit that they thus reason in themselves, said to them, `Why these things reason ye in your hearts?

which is easier, to say to the paralytic, The sins have been forgiven to thee? or to say, Rise, and take up thy couch, and walk?

`And, that ye may know that the Son of Man hath authority on the earth to forgive sins--(he saith to the paralytic) --