Let The Man Down Through The Roof

The tiles were plates of burnt clay suitable for roofing rather than for building walls or parapets.

Let the man down through the roof.

The account of the healing of the paralyzed man in mark 2 1 12 contains a number of lessons for growing christians. New heart english bible not finding a way to bring him in because of the crowd they went up to the housetop and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the midst before jesus. When they had made an opening they let the man down lying on his mat. Holman christian standard bible.

3 there was even a crowd around the doorway. 4 mark also tells us 2 2 how the paralyzed man had 4 people who were willing to assist him. When they had broken it up they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on. When jesus saw their faith he told the man that his sins were forgiven.

Luke 5 17 26 new life version nlv jesus heals a man let down through the roof of a house 17 on one of the days while jesus was teaching some proud religious law keepers and teachers of the law were sitting by him. 2 2 says jesus was in a room that was packed with people. Jesus was impressed by the faith of these men. World english bible and whanne thei myyten not brynge hym to jhesu for the puple thei vnhileden the roof where he was and openede it and thei leten doun the bed in which the sijk man in palesie laye.

Good news translation because of the crowd however they could not get the man to him. They lowered their friend down to the place where jesus was. Sermon on the paralyzed man let down through a roof luke 5. So they made a hole in the roof right above the place where jesus was.

So they made a hole in the roof above him and let the man down in front of everyone. The man is literally let down through the roof under the careful control of his concerned friends and into a situation controlled by the lord jesus christ. When they couldn t get near jesus they decided to go to the flat roof. An awning is not a roof and it is rolled up not broken up moreover the man was let down through the tiles which seems to indicate that the remaining tiles encased an opening through which he was lowered.

When the man s friends carried him to the house where jesus was staying they found the house to be packed with people wanting to hear jesus and be healed by him. The friends climbed up an outside staircase and dug a hole through the roof. They had come from every town in the countries of galilee and judea and from jerusalem.