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  "id": "luke-5-20",
  "source": "Luke",
  "pericope": "The Healing of the Paralytic",
  "chapter": 5,
  "verse_start": 17,
  "verse_end": 26,
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      "v": 17,
      "text": "On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them."
    },
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      "v": 18,
      "text": "Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before Jesus."
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      "v": 19,
      "text": "Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the middle before Jesus."
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      "v": 20,
      "text": "Seeing their faith, he said to him,"
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      "v": 20,
      "text": "“Man, your sins are forgiven you.”",
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      "v": 21,
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      "v": 21,
      "text": "The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”"
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      "v": 22,
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      "v": 22,
      "text": "But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them,"
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      "v": 22,
      "text": "“Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?",
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      "v": 23,
      "text": "Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk’?",
      "wj": true
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      "v": 24,
      "text": "But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,”",
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    {
      "v": 24,
      "text": "he said to the paralyzed man,"
    },
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      "v": 24,
      "text": "“I tell you, arise, take up your cot, and go to your house.”",
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      "v": 25,
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      "v": 25,
      "text": "Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which he was laying on, and departed to his house, glorifying God."
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      "v": 26,
      "text": "Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today.”"
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      "v": 17,
      "text": "And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judæa, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them."
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      "v": 18,
      "break": "p"
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      "v": 18,
      "text": "And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him."
    },
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      "v": 19,
      "text": "And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus."
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      "v": 20,
      "text": "And when he saw their faith, he said unto him,"
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      "v": 20,
      "text": "Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.",
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      "v": 21,
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      "v": 21,
      "text": "And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"
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      "v": 22,
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      "v": 22,
      "text": "But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them,"
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      "v": 22,
      "text": "What reason ye in your hearts?",
      "wj": true
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      "v": 23,
      "text": "Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?",
      "wj": true
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      "v": 24,
      "text": "But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins,",
      "wj": true
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      "v": 24,
      "text": "(he said unto the sick of the palsy,)"
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      "v": 24,
      "text": "I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house.",
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      "v": 25,
      "break": "p"
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      "v": 25,
      "text": "And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God."
    },
    {
      "v": 26,
      "text": "And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day."
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  "aland_number": 43,
  "epoch": 2,
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  "reference": "Luke 5:17–26",
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