We continue reading from St. Mark’s account of Our Lord’s life. After spending so much time with those physically sick, he pivots around the account about the paralytic. With this last case, he first forgives his sins and seeing his faith. Notice, these are invisible and spiritual realities that the Lord is dealing with now. His claim to be able to forgive his sins startled the Jews who know that only God can forgive sins. But Our Lord rose to the challenge. He clarified that he could forgive sins and proved it by curing the sick man of his paralysis. In today’s Gospel, Our Lord spends time with sick people again, but this time with spiritual ailing people like sinners and tax collectors. The other objected but our Lord brushed them aside since he was still concerned about the health of the people, albeit in the spiritual realm.