Jesus replies by telling them, basically, that it is easier to forgive sins than to heal a paralytic, and then, to prove he can forgive sins, he heals the paralyzed man, telling him, “Rise, pick ...

Today’s Gospel story is about the Healing of the Paralytic by our Lord Jesus Christ, which you’ll find in your Bibles in Mark 2: 1-12.

Just as the paralyzed man whose friends drop him in on Jesus through the roof is first given forgiveness of sins rather than healing of limbs (Mark 2:1-5), so the cripple at the Beautiful Gate set ...

“When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, ‘Child, your sins are forgiven.’” (Mark 2:4). Heb 4:1-5, 11; Mk 2:1-12 Mark’s version of the healing and forgiveness of the ...

The only thing I can think is that Matthew 9.1 is added to the end of the section “Jesus Heals the Gadarene Demoniacs” in chapter 8, while 9.2 opens a new section, “Jesus Heals a Paralytic”. Jesus’s ...