Verse 2 Bed; a portable bed or mattress, on which the sick were borne.--Thy sins be forgiven thee. As all the sorrows and sufferings of human life are the effects and consequences of sin, our Savior, by this reply, announces to the wretched patient effectual relief from his miseries; and also calmly takes his position as one entitled to exercise, in his own name, the highest prerogatives of divinity.