³³ and he found there a certain man, Aeneas by name -- for eight years laid upon a couch -- who was paralytic,

³ And they come unto him, bringing a paralytic, borne by four,

⁴ and not being able to come near to him because of the multitude, they uncovered the roof where he was, and, having broken `it' up, they let down the couch on which the paralytic was lying,

⁵ and Jesus having seen their faith, saith to the paralytic, `Child, thy sins have been forgiven thee.'

⁶ And there were certain of the scribes there sitting, and reasoning in their hearts,

⁷ `Why doth this one thus speak evil words? who is able to forgive sins except one -- God?'

⁸ And immediately Jesus, having known in his spirit that they thus reason in themselves, said to them, `Why these things reason ye in your hearts?

⁹ which is easier, to say to the paralytic, The sins have been forgiven to thee? or to say, Rise, and take up thy couch, and walk?

¹⁰ `And, that ye may know that the Son of Man hath authority on the earth to forgive sins -- (he saith to the paralytic) --

¹¹ I say to thee, Rise, and take up thy couch, and go away to thy house;'

²² for above forty years of age was the man upon whom had been done this sign of the healing.

² and a certain man, being lame from the womb of his mother, was being carried, whom they were laying every day at the gate of the temple, called Beautiful, to ask a kindness from those entering into the temple,

²¹ and how he now seeth, we have not known; or who opened his eyes, we have not known; himself is of age, ask him; he himself shall speak concerning himself.'

¹ And passing by, he saw a man blind from birth,

⁵ and there was a certain man there being in ailment thirty and eight years,

¹⁶ and this one, being a daughter of Abraham, whom the Adversary bound, lo, eighteen years, did it not behove to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath-day?'

²¹ And he questioned his father, `How long time is it since this came to him?' and he said, `From childhood,

²⁵ and a certain woman, having an issue of blood twelve years,

⁸ And a certain man in Lystra, impotent in the feet, was sitting, being lame from the womb of his mother -- who never had walked,