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Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralytic

1 And again aHe entered Capernaum after some days, and it was heard that He was in the house.  
2 1Immediately many gathered together, so that there was no longer room to receive them, not even near the door. And He preached the word to them.  
3 Then they came to Him, bringing a aparalytic who was carried by four men.  
4 And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying.
5 When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”
6 And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,
7 “Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? aWho can forgive sins but God alone?”  
8 But immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, He said to them, “Why do you reason about these things in your hearts?
9 aWhich is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk’?  
10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has1 power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the paralytic,  
11 “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.”
12 Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them all, so that all were amazed and aglorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”  

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13 aThen He went out again by the sea; and all the multitude came to Him, and He taught them.  
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The episode involving Jesus and the paralytic makes a distinct connection between sin and sickness. This effect is often subtle because an illness or a poor, weak, rundown state of health may not be the result of a specific sin. It may be the product of a series of sins committed over many years or a lifetime. Sin is so subtle that a worldly person, examining himself for the cause of his sickness, may never consider sin at all. Not knowing God, he would have no inclination to look for sin as the cause.

Our Savior certainly connects sin with sickness: "Jesus said, 'Rise, take up your bed and walk.' . . . Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, 'See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you'" (John 5:8, 14). It could hardly be clearer: Sin produces sickness, pain, and degeneracy.

John W. Ritenbaugh
What Sin Is

Related Topics: Connection between Sin and Sickness | Degeneracy as a Result of Sin | Pain as a Result of Sin | Sickness as a Result of Sin | Sin as Cause of Disease and Sickness | Sin Produces Sickness, Pain, and Degeneracy




Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Mark 2:1:

Matthew 9:1-8
Luke 5:17-26
Luke 5:36-39


 
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