“I say to yoʋ, rise, pick up yoʋr mat, and go to yoʋr house.”
Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out his hand, touched the man, and said to him, “I am willing; be made clean.”
But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic—
So the man immediately rose, picked up his mat, and went out in front of them all, so that they were all amazed and began glorifying God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is of no benefit. The words that I speak to you are spirit and life.