As a result of His teaching and miracles, Jesus' popularity grew rapidly. So many people wanted to hear Him that they filled the house in Capernaum where He was teaching and crowded around it. There were, five men who arrived, eager to see Jesus too. 

One of them was paralyzed and the other four carried him on a stretcher. Because of the crowd It was impossible for them to get in through the door, so they climbed up on the roof, cut a hole in it and let the paralytic down through the opening they had created. Can you imagine the commotion among the crowd in the house below as they were cutting the hole in the roof?

When Jesus saw the faith they demonstrated, He told the lame man that his sins were forgiven. ….That was probably not what the man had expected to hear, but it is every man's greatest need, right?. To be forgiven of our sins…  

Well., The scribes who were present thought Jesus had blasphemed because God is the only one who can forgive sins. Jesus read their minds and asked: Which is easier to say your sins are forgiven, or get up and walk? 

And so, To prove His ability to forgive sins (something invisible and therefore impossible to verify), He healed the paralytic who then got up and walked. So, Jesus proved His power to conquer invisible, spiritual problems by overcoming a visible, physical problem. 

The crowd was dumbfounded. They had never seen anything to compare with Jesus.