So today's daily reading was about the story of the paralytic man. There was no room in the house to get close enough to Jesus, so they cut a hole in the roof and lowered him down.
Jesus then said "My son, your sins are forgiven."
It was then that he felt the doubt of some of the scribes that what he had done was blasphemy.
It was because of this doubt that he said, "which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say 'Rise, take up your pallet and walk?'"
He then proceeds to tell the man to get up an walk.
So here's what gets me.
Jesus never healed the man right away, he could have told him to walk from the very beginning but he only did it to clear all doubt in the scribes hearts.
What would have happened if the scribes had never doubted? Would the paralyzed man have remained that way?
I know the greater miracle here was that Jesus or gave the mans sins, healed his soul first and then the human body.
I just find it curious to think what would have happened had no one in that room doubted. Would anything have actually happened there on that day?
- Tay
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