“I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house.”
Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, “I want to. Be made clean.”
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic—
He arose, and immediately took up the mat and went out in front of them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.