“Why do you reason these things in your hearts? Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Arise, and take up your bed, and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” “I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house.”
Speaker, not author
Spoken by Jesus; the Gospel does not name its own author.