Hey friends this is going to be another one of those where we pick it up really abruptly

we're talking about Matthew chapter 8 I just want to read that passage again so that we

reset this since you know it's been a day or whatever it goes like this

when he came down from the mountainside large crowds followed him a man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said,

Lord, if you're willing, you can make me clean.

Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man.

I am willing, he said, be clean.

Immediately he was cured of his leprosy then Jesus said to him

see that you don't tell anyone but go show yourself to the priest and offer the gift

Moses commanded as a testimony to them. All right hopefully that jogged your

memory here's some intro music and then we'll just pick up where we left off.

And it's reminiscent of what happens in it's over in Luke chapter I want to say five but it's definitely coming up for us in Matthew chapter 9

Luke arranges it a little bit more closely.

Matthew has a few other events that occur between the healing of the

leper and the one I'm about to talk about, but this is the pardon of

the Paralytic. And when you get to this particular

passage, your Bibles won't usually say the healing of the Paralytic. It'll say

the pardon because Jesus said that was the point of emphasis. So I want to read this

passage to you that I think is a parallel from

Matthew chapter 9. It says Jesus stepped into a boat, crossed over and came to his own town.

So men brought out to him a paralytic lying on a mat and when Jesus saw their faith he said to the Paralytic

take heart son your sins are forgiven at this some of the teachers of the law said to

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