Lesson 27~Jesus returns to to Capernaum

Mat. 9:2-8/Mark 2:1-12/Luke 5:18-26

Another time when Jesus went to Capernaum. The news got around that he was there and many came to hear him & be healed by him. In fact, there were so many in the house where Jesus was that some friends of a man with the Palsy could not get him to Jesus to be healed. So the friends carried the man upon the roof & tore up the roof above the room where Jesus was. Then they lowered the man down on a stretcher. Jesus was moved when he saw how great the friends love and faith. so he told the man that his sins were forgiven. When the spiritual leaders heard this they were angry for only god can forgive sins, they thought. Knowing this , Jesus asked them if it was easier to say ,"you sins are forgiven" or to tell the man to rise up and walk? Then Jesus went on and told them that he was going to heal the man so that they would know that he was able to do both forgive sins and heal. Then he turned to the man and told him, "Get up, gather up your bed & go home." Right away, the man did as Jesus told him to do. Everyone there was amazed by it & praised God for healing the man.