¹⁴ But afterward Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, “Now you are well; so stop sinning, or something even worse may happen to you.”

¹¹ “No, Lord,” she said.

And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”

²³ “And if you fail to learn the lesson and continue your hostility toward me, ²⁴ then I myself will be hostile toward you. I will personally strike you with calamity seven times over for your sins.

⁴⁵ Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before. That will be the experience of this evil generation.”

²⁷ “If in spite of all this you still refuse to listen and still remain hostile toward me,

⁵ Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “My child, your sins are forgiven.”