¹⁷ “Please, Lord, prove that your power is as great as you have claimed. For you said,

⁸ Fear swept through the crowd as they saw this happen. And they praised God for giving humans such authority.

⁶ So I will prove to you that the Son of Man^[a] has the authority on earth to forgive sins.” Then Jesus turned to the paralyzed man and said, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and go home!”