Before a conviction is formed, we must explore the scenario of failure and the threshold of validity of standardization. We cannot claim that the healing of a paralytic necessarily prepares the ground for teaching on the mountain if the audience is not the same. If the crowd present during the healing is not the same as those listening on the mountain, the standardizing impact is greatly diminished, or even nonexistent. Prudence dictates that we examine the mandate of this connection: for example, teaching on the mountain remains perfectly understandable without prior knowledge of the healing, if the listeners have not witnessed it. We should consider these events as separate until irrefutable proof.