 They're there and they're pretty confident that Jesus can perform this miracle, at least curious. But they know that the power of someone being forgiven is far greater than someone being healed. There's an eternal thing that happens with forgiveness. There is something that only God can do, that God can breathe, that God can bring into us to forgive sins. And they are highlighting this and noting this saying, whoa, what he's trying to do is way far beyond anything that we signed up for in the realm of just teaching and healing