Since they were not able to bring him to[a] Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and after digging through it, they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying. Seeing their faith,(A) Jesus told the paralytic, “Son, your sins(B) are forgiven.”(C)

But some of the scribes(D) were sitting there, questioning(E) in their hearts:

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  1. 2:4 Other mss read able to get near

Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”(A)

Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves,

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