2. A large crowd gathered to hear him speak. The house was so full that there was no place to stand, not even outside the door. While Jesus was teaching,
3. some people brought a paralyzed man to see him. He was being carried by four of them.
4. But they could not get the man inside to Jesus because the house was so full of people. So they went to the roof above Jesus and made a hole in it. Then they lowered the mat with the paralyzed man on it.
5. When Jesus saw how much faith they had, he said to the paralyzed man, “Young man, your sins are forgiven.”
6. Some of the teachers of the law were sitting there. They saw what Jesus did, and they said to themselves,
7. “Why does this man say things like that? What an insult to God! No one but God can forgive sins.”