Mark 2:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?

Mark 2:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 5:22-25
But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts? …
Matthew 9:5
For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-12)

Christ, having been for some time preaching about in the country, here returns to Capernaum his head-quarters, and makes his appearance there, in hopes that by this time the talk and crowd would be somewhat abated. Now observe, I. The great resort there was to him. Though he was in the house, wither Peter’s house, or some lodgings of his own which he had taken, yet people came to him as soon as it…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee--or “are forgiven thee”; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed and walk?--“Is it easier to command away disease than to bid away sin? If, then, I do the one which you can see, know thus that I have done the other, which you cannot see.”