“I say to you, rise, take up your pallet and go home.”
Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, “I will; be clean.”
But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic—
And he rose, and immediately took up the pallet and went out before them all; so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”
It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.