Matthew 9:5
For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?
KJV
τί γάρ ἐστιν εὐκοπώτερον, εἰπεῖν, ἀφίενταί σου αἱ ἁμαρτίαι, ἢ εἰπεῖν, ἔγειρε καὶ περιπάτει;
Greek NT
Quid est facilius dicere : Dimittuntur tibi peccata tua : an dicere : Surge, et ambula ?
Vulgate
For which is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven; or to say, Arise, and walk?
ASV
Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee: or to say, Arise, and walk?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εὐκοπώτερος
eukopoteros
adjective · 7×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
περιπατέω
peripateo
verb · 94×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
ἀφίημι
aphiemi
verb · 143×
ἁμαρτία
amartia
noun · 173×
ἐγείρω
egeiro
verb · 143×
ἤ
e
particle · 346×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: Ἀφίενταί | WH/Treg/NIV: Ἀφίενταί | RP: Ἀφέωνταί
- Ἀφίενταί — SBLGNT
- Ἀφίενταί — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- Ἀφέωνταί — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: Ἔγειρε | WH/Treg/NIV: Ἔγειρε | RP: Ἔγειραι
- Ἔγειρε — SBLGNT
- Ἔγειρε — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- Ἔγειραι — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Homilies on Matthew · 2 passages
2. In this case indeed He discloses also another sign, and that no small one, of His own Godhead, and of His equality in honor with the Father. For whereas they said, To unbind sins pertains to God only, He not only unbinds sins, but also before this He makes another kind of display in a thing which pertained to God only; the publishing the secrets in the heart. For neither had…
2. Do you see what great profit arises to us from the poor? Should you take them away, you would take away the great hope of our salvation. Wherefore here must we get together the oil, that it may be useful to us there, when the time calls us. For that is not the time of collecting it, but this. Spend not then your goods for nought in luxury and vainglory. For you will have nee…
2. But first I wish to remind you who are initiated of the response , which on that evening they who introduce you to the mysteries bid you make; and then I will also explain the saying of Paul: so this likewise will be clearer to you; we after all the other things adding this which Paul now says. And I desire indeed expressly to utter it, but I dare not on account of the unini…
Cross-references
- Acts 3:6 — Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
- Acts 3:16 — And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
- Acts 4:9 — If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
- Acts 9:34 — And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately.
- Acts 14:8 — And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked:
- Isa 35:5 — Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
- John 5:8 — Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
- John 5:17 — But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
- Luke 5:23 — Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?
- Luke 5:23 — Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?
- Mark 2:9 — Whether 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 — Whether 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?
- Matt 9:6 — But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.