"I say to you: Rise up, take up your stretcher, and go into your house."
Then Jesus, taking pity on him, reached out his hand. And touching him, he said to him: "I am willing. Be cleansed."
But so that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins," he said to the paralytic:
And immediately he got up, and lifting up his stretcher, he went away in the sight of them all, so that they all wondered. And they honored God, by saying, "We have never seen anything like this."
Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending to where he was before?