Willing & Able

[12] While he was in one of the cities, there came a man
full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and
begged him, "Lord, if you will, you can make me clean." [13] And
Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, "I will; be
clean." And immediately the leprosy left him. [14] And he
charged him to tell no one, but "go and show yourself to the
priest, and make an offering for your cleansing, as Moses
commanded, for a proof to them." [15] But now even more the
report about him went abroad, and great crowds gathered to
hear him and to be healed of their infirmities. [16] But he would
withdraw to desolate places and pray.
[17] On one of those days, as he was teaching, Pharisees
and teachers of the law were sitting there, who had come from
every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the
power of the Lord was with him to heal. [18] And behold, some
men were bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they
were seeking to bring him in and lay him before Jesus, [19] but
finding no way to bring him in, because of the crowd, they went
up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles
into the midst before Jesus. [20] And when he saw their faith, he
said, "Man, your sins are forgiven you." [21] And the scribes and
the Pharisees began to question, saying, "Who is this who
speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?" [22]
When Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answered them, "Why
do you question in your hearts? [23] Which is easier, to say, 'Your
sins are forgiven you,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'? [24] But that you
may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive
sins"—he said to the man who was paraly