Why Did Jesus Forgive Before Healing?

Bob Young
4 min readNov 18, 2018

“When the friends brought the paralytic to Jesus, the first thing Jesus said was, ‘Your sins are forgiven.’ Is there some connection between forgiveness and healing?”

I used to host an online series called, “Ask Bob.” People would submit questions about the Christian faith, and I did my best to answer them. One of the questions, shown above, had to do with the relationship between forgiveness and…

Bob Young

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