In today's Gospel reading from Luke 5, Jesus healed a paralytic. Some men brought on a stretcher a man who was paralyzed, trying to see Jesus. Not finding a way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on the stretcher through the tiles into the middle in front of Jesus. When Jesus saw their faith, he said, "As for you, your sins are forgiven." We see that the moment you have faith, the Lord is ready to forgive you! This is how eager he is to forgive us. Then the scribes and Pharisees began to ask themselves, "Who but God alone can forgive sins?" Jesus knew their thoughts and said in reply, "What are you thinking in your hearts? Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"– he said to the paralytic, "I say to you, rise, pick up your stretcher, and go home." He stood up immediately, picked up what he had been lying on, and went home, glorifying God. The Lord spoke as God here. Come to think of it, there's no one else who can forgive our sins, for there's only one true God, the God of Christ.
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