Some people came bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them.

When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Stand up, take your stretcher, and walk’?

But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” – he said to the paralytic –

When they were not able to bring him in because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Jesus. Then, after tearing it out, they lowered the stretcher the paralytic was lying on.