Jesus heals a paralytic: "Rise, pick up your stretcher, and go home, your sins are forgiven"
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Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Gospel text
Mt 9:1-8
Mt 9:1-8
After entering a boat, Jesus made the crossing, and came into his own town. And there people brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher...
Gospel's Commentary
Today the Master appreciates this gesture of solidarity among friends and the trust they place in Him. But the Lord surprises them: “Courage, son, your sins are forgiven.” And what about the paralysis? That is the point! The first and worst paralysis is sin. This is a very dangerous paralysis: it destroys us almost without our realizing it.
—Jesus begins with what comes first. But since God is Lord over the spirit and Lord over matter, He can say: “That you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins: Rise, pick up your stretcher, and go home.”