{"id":9925,"date":"2024-08-29T07:42:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T11:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesusdidsay.com\/?page_id=9925"},"modified":"2026-10-07T11:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:27:17","slug":"mark-chapter-2-jesus-forgives-and-heals-a-paralyzed-man","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jesusdidsay.com\/?page_id=9925","title":{"rendered":"Mark Chapter 2 Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2\u00a0<\/strong>A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home.\u00a0<sup>2\u00a0<\/sup>They gathered in such large numbers\u00a0that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them.\u00a0<sup>3\u00a0<\/sup>Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man,\u00a0carried by four of them.\u00a0<sup>4\u00a0<\/sup>Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on.\u00a0<sup>5\u00a0<\/sup>When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man,\u00a0<mark style=\\\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#ff0000\\\" class=\\\"has-inline-color\\\">\u201cSon, your sins are forgiven.\u201d<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>6&nbsp;<\/sup>Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves,&nbsp;<sup>7&nbsp;<\/sup>\u201cWhy does this fellow talk like that? He\u2019s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>8\u00a0<\/sup>Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them,\u00a0<mark style=\\\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#ff0000\\\" class=\\\"has-inline-color\\\">\u201cWhy are you thinking these things?\u00a0<sup>9\u00a0<\/sup>Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man, \u2018Your sins are forgiven,\u2019 or to say, \u2018Get up, take your mat and walk\u2019?\u00a0<sup>10\u00a0<\/sup>But I want you to know that the Son of Man\u00a0has authority on earth to forgive sins.\u201d<\/mark>\u00a0So he said to the man,\u00a0<sup>11<\/sup><mark style=\\\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#ff0000\\\" class=\\\"has-inline-color\\\"><sup>\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cI tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.\u201d<\/mark>\u00a0<sup>12\u00a0<\/sup>He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. 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