*I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house.*
Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, *I want to. Be made clean.*
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins*--he said to the paralytic--
He arose, and immediately took up the mat, and went out in front of them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, *We never saw anything like this!*
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.