he said to the paralytic, “I say to you, rise, pick up your mat, and go home.”
Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, “I do will it. Be made clean.”
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth”—
He rose, picked up his mat at once, and went away in the sight of everyone. They were all astounded and glorified God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this.” The Call of Levi.
It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.