While Josephus isn’t sure of the source for Jesus’s supernatural deeds, he is sure they happened.
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In chapter 5 of his Gospel, Luke unfolds the following scene: Jesus is teaching in a crowded house, and a paralyzed man is lowered through the roof to ask for healing. Jesus answers by forgiving his sins. Shocked, the scribes and Pharisees accused Jesus of blasphemy—for who, they ask, can forgive sins but God alone?
In response, Jesus heals the man’s paralysis. At this, the crowd is amazed. They glorify God, they’re filled with “awe,” and they exclaim, “Today we have seen paradoxa!” (Luke 5:26).
