»To you I say, `Rise, take up your mat and go home.'«
Moved with pity Jesus reached out His hand and touched him. »I am willing,« He said; »be cleansed.«
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to pardon sins« –He turned to the paralytic, and said,
The man rose, and immediately under the eyes of all took up his mat and went out, so that they were all filled with astonishment, gave the glory to God, and said, »We never saw anything like this.«
It is the spirit which gives Life. The flesh confers no benefit whatever. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and are Life.
