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Mark 2: 3-12 Then they came to Him, bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men. 4 And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying. 5 When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.” 6 And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, 7 “Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God alone?” 8 But immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, He said to them, “Why do you reason about these things in your hearts? 9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk’? 10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the paralytic, 11 “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.” 12 Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!” Can you imagine the tension in this scene? The scribes are tense, because Jesus is challenging them, and saying He's gonna demonstrate that He's the Son of God. The paralyzed man is tense, he's wondering if Jesus is really gonna heal him. The crowds all tense just feeling the tension in the air. The owner of the house is tense, he's wondering how much it's gonna cost, to fix his roof. And the four friends are tense as well as tired, after all the work of carrying their friend up to the roof, tearing a hole, and lowering him down, hoping first that Jesus heals their friend, as well as hoping they don't get busted for destroying this guys roof. The only one of the whole group who's not tense is Jesus, He's got perfect peace and just says, "arise, take up your bed, and go to your house." What happened then? Immediately he arose. Jesus showed that He had the power to heal and authority to forgive sins. The chapter goes on to tell about how the Pharisees are busting Jesus chops for picking and eating grain on the Sabbath. The Pharisees had made up so many rules about the Sabbath that it no longer even resembled rest. Heck they even had a rule that if someone wore false teeth, it was work to put them in, thus, it was forbiden. Now, you tell me which is more work, eating with or without your teeth? So the chapter ends with, vs 27 And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. 28 Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath. When Jesus used the phrase, "Son of Man" He was referring the Son of Man prophecy in Daniel 7:13-14 to Himself: “I was watching in the night visions, And behold, One like the Son of Man, Coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, And they brought Him near before Him. 14 Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, That all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion,Which shall not pass away, And His kingdom the one Which shall not be destroyed. The Jews of that era would or at least should have been intimately familiar with that phrase and to whom it referred. Jesus was proclaiming Himself as the Messiah. Jesus was a son of man as in hu-man, aka a human being. He's the Son of God, in that he has always existed as the Eternally Begotten One who comes forth from the Father forever. He is the Second Person of the Trinity with all of the divine nature fully in him. He's the ultimate God-man, fully God and fully man, divine and human—two natures, one person. Jesus never ceased being God. His incarnation didn't involve the subtraction of deity, but the addition of humanity. Jesus clearly claimed in Matthew 16:16, 17; John 8:58; 10:30 to be God. But in addition to being divine, Philippians 2:6-8 says He was also human. He had both a divine and a human nature both conjoined in one person. Also, the phrase “Son of Man” emphasizes who Jesus is in relation to His incarnation and work of salvation. In the book of Leviticus, chapters 25 and 48, it says, I'm gonna put this in my words, if someone falls on hard times, and had to sell his "stuff" or himself, someone from their family can redeem it. This was lived out in the book of Ruth when Boaz, a relative of Naomi redeemed Ruth, her daughter in law, and became the great Grand mother of King David. This act was known as the “kinsman-redeemer” of a family member who needed redemption from jail or slavery. Jesus became related to us “by blood” (that is, He became a man) so He could function as our Kinsman-Redeemer and rescue and redeem us from the slavery of sin and death. But, we can only be redeemed if we want to accept His plan for eternal life and not our own. Papa God, thank You so much for sending Your Son as our Kinsman-Redeemer to redeem us from sin and death.

this is the grade part of Jesus work he is has the powder to heal the sick, to forgive to help the sinner to ask god

This passage lets me know that Jesus will heal a person because of someone else faith. Now the friends couldn't get the man through the crowd so they made a hole in the roof and lower him right down to Jesus and He saw the friends faith and heal the man. You can pray and believe for someone else. This is why we are suppose to pray for one another.