Who can make a paralyzed man walk and who can forgive sins?

One day Jesus was teaching in a house. There were so many people listening to Him, that some people who were bringing a paralyzed man on a bed couldn’t get through to Him. These people were so desperate to bring their friend to Jesus that they went up on the house’s roof and let him down through the tiles of the roof into the middle of all the people where Jesus was standing.

The people brought their friend to Jesus so that He could heal him, but the first thing Jesus did when He saw their faith in Him was to say to the paralyzed man, “Your sins are forgiven you.” The people around Jesus were upset because only God could forgive people’s sins, but Jesus claimed to have the authority to forgive sins. Jesus knew what the people were thinking, and so to prove His claim He said to the paralyzed man, “Stand up and walk.” And the paralyzed man did exactly that – he was healed and he stood up and walked!

Jesus showed His power by healing a paralyzed man. He also claimed to be able to forgive people’s sins. Do you believe He can heal you? Do you believe He can forgive your sins?

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Who can make a paralyzed man walk and who can forgive sins?

Mark 2:1-12 (ESV)

And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts, “Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you question these things in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic—“I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home.” And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”

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