.” So, he said to the paralyzed man, “I tell you, get up, pick up your mat and go home!”. The people would not believe Christ had power to forgive sins, so He said to them, in effect: “I will prove to you that I have the power to forgive sins by curing this palsy, which is one of the consequences of sin. When you see that I can cure or take away this sin produced disease, then you will know that I can take away sin itself”.