The Paralytic Lowered Through The Roof

But the language is strongly against such a construction.

The paralytic lowered through the roof.

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. The house had a flat roof and outside stairs leading up to the roof. Healing the paralytic. 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.

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. The friends climbed up an outside staircase and dug a hole through the roof. 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. 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.

Jesus was impressed by the faith of these men. They couldn t get past the crowd at the door. 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. Many roofs of the galilean villages were overlain with packed clay.

As late as the early 20th century some of the roofs in tiberias were of packed clay. The gospel writer luke reported a paralytic man was lowered through the tiled roof. 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. The four men tried to take the paralyzed man into the house to lay him before jesus.

A paralyzed man on a bedroll. Healing the paralytic let down through the roof in capernaum. It has been suggested the greek for clay tile might have also meant packed clay. 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.

Seeing their faith jesus said to the paralytic take courage son. Some men came carrying a paralyzed man but could not get inside so they made an opening in the roof above jesus and then lowered the man down. 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. 2 and they brought to him a paralytic lying on a bed.

They lowered their friend down to the place where jesus was.