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Hi everyone. 
Welcome back. 

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Once again, to daily gospel 
exegesis, where we try to do, 

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really solid exegesis of the 
Gospel, text to help you 

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understand, maybe some things 
that you might have missed. 

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If you just skim read the text, 
we want to really dive into the 

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very text of the gospels. 
And today if you go to Mass, I 

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would hear from Matthew chapter,
9 verses 1 to 8, Jesus got into 

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the boat crossed the water and 
came to his own town. 

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Then some people appeared, 
bringing him a paralytic 

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stretched out on a bed, seeing 
their faith. 

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Jesus said to the paralytic, 
courage my child, your sins are 

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forgiven. 
And at this, some scribes said 

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to themselves. 
This man is blaspheming Knowing 

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what was in their minds. 
Jesus said, why do you have such

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Wicked thoughts in your heart in
your hearts? 

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Now which of these is easier to 
say your sins are forgiven or to

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say get up and walk. 
But to prove to you that the son

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of man has Authority on Earth to
forgive sins. 

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He said to the paralytic, get up
and pick up your bed and go off 

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home. 
And the man got up and went 

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home, a feeling of awe came over
the crowd when they saw this and

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they praised God for giving such
power to men. 

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So, what's the context here? 
Jesus has been doing various 

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healings in the Galilee region 
and on the previous day, he had 

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crossed to the Eastern side of 
the Sea of Galilee to heal the 

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demon Iraq. 
That's at the end of Matthew 

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chapter 8, And now Jesus gets 
back into the boat. 

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In verse one, crosses the water 
and came to his own town so he 

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gets back in the boat on the 
western shore. 

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Sorry on the Eastern Shore and 
goes back across to the western 

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shore where his home town of 
Capernaum. 

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Is, that's basically where he 
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his ministry. 
So he's going home back to 

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Capernaum. 
He probably went into his own 

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house or certainly, he went to 
Peter's house according to Marx 

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version and there's a question 
about whether Jesus may have 

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actually lived in Peter's house 
or whether he had his own. 

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But marks version of this story 
says, at this point, so many 

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people collected in the house, 
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even in the front door. 
So they're in Simon's house and 

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there's people everywhere. 
There's people crowding to get 

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to Jesus and there's no room 
verse to our translation in the 

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lectionary says then People 
appeared. 

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Now, the original here, just 
says, behold they brought him a 

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paralytic, so it's just some 
people from the crowd 

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apparently. 
The cause of his condition is 

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not described here. 
Although, apparently the 

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paralytic has been paralyzed 
since birth, it seems that way 

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verse to sing their faith. 
Now, what about this is 

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faithful? 
Well, Mark actually gives us 

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this detail in marks version. 
We see the friends carrying the 

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paralytic, believe in Jesus so 
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They have so much faith in him, 
that they actually would willing

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to go to the lengths of opening 
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lowering him down. 
Roof. 

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So you probably know that story.
This is the same story, but 

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Matthew doesn't include the 
details about making the hole in

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the roof, but it's the same 
story. 

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So, Jesus sees their faith and 
Hell far. 

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They're willing to go to get 
this man, to Jesus. 

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So he says to the paralytic 
courage, my child or more, 

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literally their take heart, my 
son. 

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Now, that phrase my son or my 
child that could imply the 

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paralytic was a young man, not 
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It could just be an affirmation 
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Daya T my son, he sort of, in 
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perhaps and maybe it's just a 
tender phrase, he's showing 

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tenderness to the man. 
And then he says these 

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controversial Words, which have 
echo through the centuries? 

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He says to the man, your sins 
are forgiven. 

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Now, this was a bombshell to his
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believed that only God, could 
forgive sins and that was taught

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Particularly Psalm 103 verse 12,
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The Old Testament is very clear 
that only God could forgive 

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sins. 
Even if you go to the temple to 

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get your sins forgiven, it's not
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That would do it. 
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But here, Jesus just says your 
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So, this is interpreted as 
blasphemy because he's basically

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claiming to be God. 
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Jesus is God, so it doesn't 
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course, Jesus, Jesus never comes
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So, the scribes and the other 
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Don't realize that he's God, so 
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Now, many scholars have pointed 
out, that notice, Jesus hasn't 

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even healed. 
The man first, his just starts 

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talking about the man's sins. 
Why focus on the man's sins, 

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rather than his physical 
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Well, it seems that Jesus always
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in our hearts and deal with the 
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rather than physical maladies. 
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man's heart, he sees that the 
man has some sin in his life and

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he releases him from a burden of
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Possibly for years. 
So in this story, the healing of

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the man sin is the precondition 
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handicap, verse 3, some scribes.
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law. 
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the Old Testament for the Jewish
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And at this stage, they're 
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Well, he hid it here. 
Jeez, is that this point? 

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They're not openly hostile to 
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They're genuinely interested in 
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interpretation of the Old 
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they specialized in. 
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Peter, where everyone's crowded,
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But as soon as Jesus says, your 
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the scribes say to themselves. 
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Marks translation makes it clear
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anything. 
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internally, and this is what 
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This man is blaspheming because 
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claiming to be able to forgive 
sins, and they know that only 

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God can do that. 
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you had to go to the temple. 
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in someone's house and he 
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sins are forgiven. 
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Jesus, getting rid of the old 
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it used to work for forgiveness 
of sins, Jesus is introducing a 

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new way of forgiving sins. 
So, in summary here, what they 

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notice is, that Jesus is putting
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and his bestowing on this man, 
the Forgiveness of sins. 

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That's We are only associated 
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thinking, this man is 
blaspheming, but Jesus knows 

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what's in their minds or more 
literally, he knows their 

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thoughts. 
So, Jesus reads the minds of the

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scribes here. 
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He does do this every now and 
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those around him, but he only 
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And this is what he says to 
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Why do you have such Wicked 
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So, Jesus perceives not only 
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actually comes right out and 
says, their thoughts are wicked?

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Why their thoughts Wicked? 
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but probably because they deny 
the truth that Jesus has 

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Authority from God to forgive 
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Verse 5. 
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after having said the thoughts 
are wicked now, which of these 

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is easier to say your sins are 
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walk. 
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Jesus is asking them a 
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The answer is supposed to be 
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The answer to the question is 
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your sins are forgiven is the 
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actually telling a paralyzed man
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And so the idea here is that 
from their perspective, the 

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scribes perspective, it's much 
more likely that the man's sins 

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would be forgiven or at least to
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then for the man to get up on 
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But if that's the case, if 
saying the man sins are forgiven

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is the easier option. 
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That he has the power to do the 
harder one, which is to give the

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man, his physical walking 
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the harder one then he's also in
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that he has the power to do the 
easier one as well. 

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You notice how that works? 
He says which is easier and they

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would have said to themselves 
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forgiven easier. 
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going to do the harder one which
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easier one to Notice the 
language he uses here is, I want

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to prove to you now. 
That's a key phrase in the Old 

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Testament. 
God often Works a miracle, not 

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always, but sometimes so that 
the people will know that he's 

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God as a kind of a proof thing 
though that has to be held in 

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Balance because there's other 
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Jesus specifically says, I'm not
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you because that would be too 
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Now in this case he uses this 
title, the son of man. 

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Now that's a Mysterious 
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appears a few times in the Old 
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in the Book of Daniel, Daniel 
chapter 8 products that there's 

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in one of Daniels Visions. 
There's this human messenger 

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from Heaven, that's going to 
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the Earth. 
And in Daniel chapter 8, that 

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figure is called the son of man.
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the son of man probably 
represented the people of God 

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perhaps, but in the time of 
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the Son of man as a title for 
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So, son of man, basically means 
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That's the title Jesus uses for 
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So as people who are interested 
in learning and studying the 

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gospels, whenever Jesus says, 
the son of man, blah blah blah. 

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He means the Messiah. 
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Messiah essentially, although 
they don't always fully perceive

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that a lot, or they don't always
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And this is what he says about 
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The Messiah, the Son of Man, I'm
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The son of man has Authority on 
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wants to show the scribes and 
the crowd that the one of the 

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things, the Messiah can do is to
forgive sins. 

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They didn't really realize that 
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Testament, there's a whole lot 
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The Messiah can do that are 
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clearly predicted that the 
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Jesus wants to show them that. 
Notice the language he uses. 

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He doesn't say, son of man has 
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He adds in a phrase on Earth, 
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Earth to forgive sins. 
This phrase is really important 

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for Catholic theology. 
Let's think about what Jesus is 

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saying here. 
Jesus is affirming, the God is 

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the only one who can forgive 
sins in heaven, but he is 

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telling them. 
Something new has happened. 

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God has delegated his authority 
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While the Messiah is on, Earth, 
interesting. 

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The Messiah has Authority on 
Earth to forgive sins. 

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That same Authority is what's 
passed on to the apostles later,

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the authority to forgive sins on
Earth, because later Jesus says 

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to them, whatever sins you 
forgive, are forgiven, whatever 

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sins you retain are retained. 
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authority to forgive sins on 
Earth to the apostles and as 

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Catholics, we believe that's the
basis for the sacrament of 

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confession, which is passed down
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priests today, we'll talk more 
about that when we get to verse 

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8 because the crowd and maybe 
perhaps Matthew, realizes the 

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significance of the fact that 
now people on earth have the 

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ability to forgive sins. 
Jesus finishes by saying and get

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up, pick up your bed and go home
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He gets up and goes straight 
away. 

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Notice Jesus didn't touch him 
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Apparently it was just the word 
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That's what he also man. 
So, the man gets up and he goes 

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home, and imagine you're in the 
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That would be quite amazing to 
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locals. 
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and they probably knew he'd been
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All of a sudden he gets up and 
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So this is their reaction verse 
eight, a feeling of or came over

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the crowd when they saw this and
they praised God for giving such

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power to men. 
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ministry, everyone is still very
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And in fact, when they see these
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which is an excellent outcome. 
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recognize him as the Son of God.
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this crowd, don't seem to 
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but they do recognize here. 
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has given power to this man. 
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As we know, if you read on the 
scribes, begin to develop a 

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grudge against Jesus. 
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positive. 
But later on for different 

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reasons, The Scribe start to be 
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Notice the language that's used 
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The when the crowd saw this, 
they praised God for giving such

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power to men. 
Some Scholars have pointed out 

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that the crowd here. 
Apparently doesn't think only. 

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Well God has given power to this
man. 

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Jesus they say God Given power 
to men. 

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Perhaps this is a hint that at 
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was well known that the apostles
were also associated with the 

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ministry of forgiving sins, men 
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And so Matthews, audience would 
know that this authority to 

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forgive sins. 
Had passed through the apostles 

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as well. 
That might be what's in view 

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here, really interesting. 
So we'll leave it there for 

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today. 
There's no catechism references 

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for us to look at today, but 
we'll continue to work through 

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the gospel of Matthew, this 
fascinating, very Jewish gospel,

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in tomorrow's episode