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They could not get near Yeshua because of the crowd, so they stripped the roof over the place where he was, made an opening, and lowered the stretcher with the paralytic lying on it.
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Seeing their trust, Yeshua said to the paralyzed man, "Son, your sins are forgiven."
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Some Torah-teachers sitting there thought to themselves,
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"How can this fellow say such a thing? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins except God?"
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But immediately Yeshua, perceiving in his spirit what they were thinking, said to them, "Why are you thinking these things?
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Which is easier to say to the paralyzed man? `Your sins are forgiven'? or `Get up, pick up your stretcher and walk'?
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But look! I will prove to you that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins." He then said to the paralytic,
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"I say to you: get up, pick up your stretcher and go home!"
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In front of everyone the man got up, picked up his stretcher at once and left. They were all utterly amazed and praised God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"
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Yeshua went out again by the lake. All the crowd came to him, and he began teaching them.
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As he passed on from there, he saw Levi Ben-Halfai sitting in his tax-collection booth and said to him, "Follow me!" And he got up and followed him.