8. Mt. 9: 1-8

Mt. 9: 1-8: V.8 indicates the sacrament of reconciliation in which people “praised God for giving such power to men” It was for this reason that Jesus is accused (Mt. 26:65) The teachers of the law saw in Jesus as an ordinary man (“This man is blaspheming”) The crowd saw in this man God Himself. “The priest is the sign and the instrument of God’s merciful love for the sinner” (v.6 & Jn 5:27 & ccc 1465).