²³ And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will go down to Hades.^(A) For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until today.

The Son of Man Forgives and Heals

2 When^(A) He entered Capernaum^(B) again after some days, it was reported that He was at home. ² So many people gathered together that there was no more room, not even in the doorway, and He was speaking the message^(C) to them. ³ Then they came to Him bringing a paralytic,^(D) carried by four men. ⁴ Since they were not able to bring him to^[a] Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above where He was. And when they had broken through, they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying.

⁵ Seeing their faith,^(E) Jesus told the paralytic, “Son, your sins^(F) are forgiven.”^(G)

⁶ But some of the scribes^(H) were sitting there, thinking^(I) to themselves:^{[b] 7} “Why does He speak like this? He’s blaspheming!^(J) Who can forgive^(K) sins^(L) but God alone?”^(M)

⁸ Right away^(N) Jesus understood in His spirit^(O) that they were thinking like this within themselves and said to them, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?^{[c] 9} Which is easier:^(P) to say to the paralytic,^(Q) ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, pick up your mat, and walk’?^{(R) 10} But so you may know that the Son of Man^(S) has authority^(T) on earth to forgive sins,”^(U) He told the paralytic, ¹¹ “I tell you: get up,^(V) pick up your mat, and go home.”

¹² Immediately he got up, picked up the mat, and went out in front of everyone. As a result, they were all astounded^(W) and gave glory^(X) to God,^(Y) saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”^(Z)

The Second Sign: Healing an Official’s Son

⁴⁶ Then He went again to Cana^(A) of Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum.^{(B) 47} When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea^(C) into Galilee, he went to Him and pleaded with Him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

⁴⁸ Jesus told him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders,^(D) you will not believe.”^(E)

⁴⁹ “Sir,”^(F) the official said to Him, “come down before my boy dies!”

⁵⁰ “Go,” Jesus told him, “your son will live.” The man believed what^[a] Jesus said to him and departed.

⁵¹ While he was still going down, his slaves met him saying that his boy was alive. ⁵² He asked them at what time he got better. “Yesterday at seven in the morning^[b] the fever left him,” they answered. ⁵³ The father^(G) realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” Then he himself believed, along with his whole household.