He Can Make Good

Mark 2:10-11 KJV

But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)

I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.

Jesus' first response when He saw the man sick of the palsy was to forgive his sin. His friends brought him for physical healing but he got so much more. The passage reads like Jesus was not going to heal him. His interest was in the man's sin. His interest was in the man's eternal need.

That being dealt with it appears Jesus would have moved on except for the reasoning of the scribes. One eternal need met, the forgiveness of the man's sins, gave rise to opportunity for another eternal need to be fulfilled; the meaning of Christ's miracles to be taught. Jesus healed the man of the palsy, not because that was his most pressing need but so the scribes, the Pharisees and indeed so we these thousands of years later could know with certainty that the Christ who claimed to forgive sins could make good on His word.