Paralytic Lowered Through The Roof

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.

Paralytic lowered through the roof.

It has been suggested the greek for clay tile might have also meant packed clay. First jesus did what only god can do he forgave the man s sins. 2 and they brought to him a paralytic lying on a bed. The friends climbed up an outside staircase and dug a hole 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. The gospel writer luke reported a paralytic man was lowered through the tiled roof. Seeing their faith jesus said to the paralytic take courage son. In matthew 9 1 the town is referred to only as his own city and the narrative in matthew 9 2 7 does not mention the.

Jesus saw the faith of the four men and said to the paralyzed man friend your sins are forgiven. Healing the paralytic. 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. They lowered their friend down to the place where jesus was.

So they tore a hole in this man s roof and lowered him down to jesus. Healing the paralytic let down through the roof in capernaum. Roof and outside stairs leading up to the roof. 18 some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before jesus.

But the language is strongly against such a construction. But instead of giving healing the first thing jesus said was son thy sins be forgiven thee. 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. 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.

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. 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. 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. Many roofs of the galilean villages were overlain with packed clay.

Capernaum is also the location of the healing of the paralytic lowered by friends through the roof to reach jesus as reported in mark 2 1 12 and luke 5 17 26.