Mark 3:35 – Rise, pick up your bed, and go home.

“I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home.”  Mark 2:11

This is Jesus, talking to a lame man in the midst of many witnesses and this is the last thing that man hears before he is healed by Jesus from being a paralytic. Leading up to this point, there is strong objection that Jesus has claimed to be God as he’s also announced the forgiveness of sin. But Jesus uses this moment in healing this man to glorify himself and his Father through giving this man the ability to walk. When we feel like God can’t