¹⁷And it happened that on one of the days as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there who had come^g from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was there in order for him to heal. ¹⁸And behold, men came carrying on a stretcher a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and place him^hⁱ before him. ¹⁹And when they^* did not find a way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and^* let him down through the roof tiles with the stretcher into the midst of them, in front of Jesus. ²⁰And when he^* saw their faith, he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven you.” ²¹And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins except God alone?” ²²But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered and^* said to them, “Why are you reasoning in your hearts? ²³Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk?’ ²⁴But in order that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” he said to the one who was paralyzed, “I say to you, ‘Get up and pick up your stretcher and^* go to your home.’ ” ²⁵And immediately he stood up before them, picked up what he had been lying on, and^* went away to his home, glorifying God. ²⁶And amazement seized them all, and they began to glorify^* God. And they were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen wonderful things today!”

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Footnotes

gLiterally “were having come”
hSome manuscripts include the pronoun “him” after “place”
iSince Greek routinely omits direct objects when they are clear from context, the pronoun is not necessary here in the Greek text, but it must be supplied in the English translation
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“find”) which is understood as temporal
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“went up”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“pick up”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participles (“stood up” and “picked up”) have been translated as finite verbs
*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to glorify”)