The Gospel today from Mark 2:1-12 confirms to us what we have been saying these past few days about the Gospels in the Masses. And that is that Jesus began performing physical cures to show his power over life and health. With that well established he goes to show his principal objective and that is to cure sin, the real evil in the world and the principal ailment of the soul. He shows he could forgive sins because he got the paralytic to walk again.