Luke 5:23 YLT

²¹  And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, 'Who is this that doth speak evil words? who is able to forgive sins, except God only?'

²²  And Jesus having known their reasonings, answering, said unto them, 'What reason ye in your hearts?

²³  which is easier -- to say, Thy sins have been forgiven thee? or to say, Arise, and walk?

²⁴  'And that ye may know that the Son of Man hath authority upon the earth to forgive sins -- (he said to the one struck with palsy) -- I say to thee, Arise, and having taken up thy little couch, be going on to thy house.'

²⁵  And presently having risen before them, having taken up 'that' on which he was lying, he went away to his house, glorifying God,