إنجيل القدّيس لوقا .80-67:1
إِمْتَلأَ زَكَرِيَّا مِنَ الرُّوحِ القُدُس، فَتَنبَّأَ قائِلاً
تَبَارَكَ الرَّبُّ، إِلهُ إِسْرَائِيل، لأَنَّهُ ٱفْتَقَدَ شَعْبَهُ وٱفْتَدَاه
وأَقَامَ لنَا قُوَّةَ خَلاصٍ في بَيْتِ دَاوُدَ فَتَاه
كمَا تَكَلَّمَ بِفَمِ أَنْبِيَائِهِ القِدِّيسِينَ مُنْذُ القَدِيم
لِيُخَلِّصَنَا مِنْ أَعْدَائِنَا، ومِنْ أَيْدي جَمِيعِ مُبغِضِينَا
ويَصْنَعَ رَحْمَةً مَعَ آبَائِنَا، ويَذْكُرَ عَهْدَهُ المُقَدَّس
ذاكَ القَسَمَ الَّذي أَقسَمَهُ لإِبرَاهِيمَ أَبِينَا، بِأَنْ يُنْعِمَ عَلَينا
وقَدْ نَجَوْنَا مِنْ أَيْدِي أَعْدَائِنَا، أَنْ نَعبُدَهُ بِلا خَوْف
بِالقَدَاسَةِ والبِرِّ، في حَضْرَتِهِ، كُلَّ أَيَّامِ حيَاتِنَا
وأَنْتَ، أَيُّهَا الصَّبِيّ، نَبِيَّ العَلِيِّ تُدْعَى، لأَنَّكَ تَسِيرُ أَمَامَ وَجْهِ الرَّبِّ لِتُعِدَّ طُرُقَهُ
وتُعَلِّمَ شَعْبَهُ الخَلاصَ بِمَغْفِرَةِ خَطَايَاهُم
في أَحشَاءِ رَحْمَةِ إِلهِنَا، الَّتي بِهَا ٱفْتَقَدَنَا المُشْرِقُ مِنَ العَلاء
لِيُضِيءَ على الجَالِسِينَ في ظُلْمَةِ المَوْتِ وظِلالِهِ، ويَهْدِيَ خُطَانَا إِلى طَرِيقِ السَّلام
وكَانَ الصَّبيُّ يَكْبُرُ ويَتَقَوَّى في الرُّوح. وكانَ في البَرارِي إِلى يَوْمِ ظُهُورِهِ لإِسْرَائِيل
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 5:17-26.
One day as Jesus was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was with him for healing.
And some men brought on a stretcher a man who was paralyzed; they were trying to bring him in and set (him) in his presence.
But not finding a way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on the stretcher through the tiles into the middle in front of Jesus.
When he saw their faith, he said, “As for you, your sins are forgiven.”
Then the scribes and Pharisees began to ask themselves, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who but God alone can forgive sins?”
Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them in reply, “What are you thinking in your hearts?
Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’?
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”–he said to the man who was paralyzed, “I say to you, rise, pick up your stretcher, and go home.”
He stood up immediately before them, picked up what he had been lying on, and went home, glorifying God.
Then astonishment seized them all and they glorified God, and, struck with awe, they said, “We have seen incredible things today.”