The healing of the paralytic We often think of those living in the 1st century Palestine as being simple people governed by naive beliefs and superstitions. But their view of the world is not that different from the way we often view events in our world. Many people today have a very real belief in luck, fate, as if power over creation operates arbitrarily. And our goal is to somehow put ourselves in the path of such power. We become victims of superstition, and we're not muc
