DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
The narrator saying Jesus spoke to the man. Jesus tells the scribes the Son of Man "has authority on earth to forgive sins," and all three cut in at that point: "he said to the paralytic" (Mark 2:10), "he then said to the paralytic" (Matthew 9:6), "he said to the one who was paralyzed" (Luke 5:24).
Why it’s interesting
Spotting the same aside at the same point in three books is one of the clues that set scholars asking how the Gospels are related. To see it, they lay the three side by side in columns, a table called a synopsis.
Scholarly consensus
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