And forth went the report of him into all Syria; and they brought unto him all who were sick, with divers diseases and tortures, distressed, demonized and lunatic and paralyzed,—and he cured them.
And lo! they were bringing unto him a paralytic, on a couch, laid prostrate; and Jesus, seeing, their faith, said to the paralytic,—Take courage! child, forgiven are thy sins.
And Jesus, straightway, taking note in his spirit, that thus they are deliberating within themselves, saith unto them—Why, these things, are ye deliberating in your hearts?