³³ There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.

³ Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him.

⁴ When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on.

⁵ Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you."

⁶ But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,

⁷ "Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

⁸ Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason these things in your hearts?

⁹ Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven;' or to say, 'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?'

¹⁰ But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"--he said to the paralytic--

¹¹ "I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house."

²² For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.

² A certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

²¹ but how he now sees, we don't know; or who opened his eyes, we don't know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself."

¹ As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

⁵ A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

¹⁶ Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?"

²¹ He asked his father, "How long has it been since this has come to him?" He said, "From childhood.

²⁵ A certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years,

⁸ At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked.