Jesus dealt with the sin question first. If only God could forgive sins, as the scribes had said, then He proved Himself God. Both were impossible for man, but God could do either. Jesus did not pick up the man's bed or carry it for him, but He told him to do it. Leprosy is a picture of sin.
Paralysis is a picture of the result of sin.
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