11. When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.
12. While he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Yeshua, he fell on his face, and begged him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”
13. He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.”Immediately the leprosy left him.
14. He commanded him to tell no one, “But go your way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”
15. But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.
16. But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.
17. On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the Torah sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.
18. Behold, men brought a paralysed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before Yeshua.
19. Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the middle before Yeshua.
20. Seeing their faith, he said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”
21. The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”
22. But Yeshua, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?
23. Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you;’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk?’