Luke 5:17-21

One day when Jesus was teaching, the Pharisees and religious teachers who had come from all over Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem were sitting there. The power of the Lord to heal was with him so he could heal.

Some men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. They tried to take him in and lay him in front of Jesus.

But they couldn't find any way through the crowd, so they went up on the roof and made a hole in the roof tiles. Then they lowered the man down on the mat, right into the crowd in front of Jesus.

When Jesus saw the trust they had in him, he said to the man, “Your sins are forgiven.”

The religious teachers and the Pharisees began to argue with that. “Who is this who's speaking blasphemies?” they asked. “Who can forgive sins? Only God can do that!”