"To you I say, Get up, take up your mat, and return to your home."
Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying as he did so: "I am willing; become clean."
But that you may know that the Son of Man has power to forgive sins on earth"--here he said to the paralyzed man--
The man got up, and immediately took up his mat, and went out before them all; at which they were amazed, and, as they praised God, they said: "We have never seen anything like this!"
It is the Spirit that gives Life; mere flesh is of no avail. In the teaching that I have been giving you there is Spirit and there is Life.