Today we continue our series in the Gospel of Luke, one of four eyewitness accounts of Jesus’ words and works. In them we learn of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection to rescue a people of his own from among the nations—even us. Today, we come to another moving scene in which Jesus heals a paralytic, but first, surprisingly, forgives his sins. It made the crowd, and it should make us, ask, "Who can forgive sin but God alone?" Our entire life rests on our answer to that question.