I say unto you, Arise, and take up your bed, and go your way into your house.
And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and said unto him, I will; be clean.
But that you may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, (he said to the paralytic)
And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it in this fashion.
It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.