A man who could not walk wanted to be healed by jesus.
Lowered paralytic through roof.
The gospel writer luke reported a paralytic man was lowered through the tiled roof.
Many roofs of the galilean villages were overlain with packed clay.
2 and they brought to him a paralytic lying on a bed.
Learn about the 4 friends who brought the paralyzed man to jesus.
Since they were unable to get to jesus through the crowd they uncovered the roof above him made an opening and lowered the paralytic on his mat.
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So the four men went up on the roof removed some tiles and lowered the paralyzed man on his bedroll into the middle of the crowd right in front of jesus.
As far as they were concerned jesus may not ever pass that way again and they wanted to make sure this paralytic man had to chance to see him.
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Luke 5 18 25new international version niv 18 some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before jesus 19 when they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd right in front of jesus.
So they tore a hole in this man s roof and lowered him down to jesus.
Some men came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four of them.
When the man s friends carried him to the house.
Jesus heals and forgives.
Most likely then the paralytic who was let down through the roof was weighed down by a burden of guilt which he had carried rightly or wrongly for many years.
When jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic son your sins are forgiven mark 2 3 5.
Seeing their faith jesus said to the paralytic take courage son.
Roof and outside stairs leading up to the roof.
As late as the early 20th century some of the roofs in tiberias were of packed clay.
Healing the paralytic.
To hear the lord pronounce that his sins were forgiven lifted a great load from this man s guilty conscience.
Since they could not get him to jesus because of the crowd they made an opening in the roof above jesus and after digging through it lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on.
Jesus had spent quite a lot of time in and around capernaum.
The implication is quite clear that the man was paralyzed because of past sins.
Jesus saw the faith of the four men and said to the paralyzed man friend your sins are forgiven.
He must have made it sort of a home base.
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Berean literal bible and not being able to come near to him on account of the crowd they removed the roof where he was and having broken it up they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying.
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Your sins are forgiven 3 and some of the scribes said to themselves this fellowblasphemes 4 and jesus knowing their thoughts said why are you thinking evil in your hearts.