Healing the paralytic at Capernaum

Healing the paralytic at Capernaum is one of the miracles of Jesus in the synoptic Gospels (Matthew 9:1–8, Mark 2:1–12, and Luke 5:17–26).

The passage from scripture is as follows: A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home.

In his Against Heresies, Church Father Irenaeus interprets the miracle as a demonstration of Jesus's divinity: Therefore, by remitting sins, He did indeed heal man, while He also manifested Himself who He was.

[6]For Adam Clarke, there are three miracles of Jesus in this passage: the forgiveness of sins, the discernment of the private thoughts of the scribes, and the cure of the paralytic.

[7] According to John Gill, the fact that Jesus knew people's thoughts was sufficient demonstration of his Messiahship, according to the teaching of the Jews.

This distinguished him from false Messiahs like Simon bar Kokhba, who was unmasked and executed for not having this power.

[8] Cornelius a Lapide comments on the verse "And, behold, they brought to him ...", writing, "the paralytic man was carried by four bearers.