Paralytic Lowered 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.

Paralytic lowered through the roof.

Roof and outside stairs leading up to 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. But the language is strongly against such a construction. 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.

Seeing their faith jesus said to the paralytic take courage son. 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. 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.

2 and they brought to him a paralytic lying on a bed. Jesus saw the faith of the four men and said to the paralyzed man friend your sins are forgiven. Healing the paralytic let down through the roof in capernaum. Many roofs of the galilean villages were overlain with packed clay.

So they tore a hole in this man s roof and lowered him down to jesus. As late as the early 20th century some of the roofs in tiberias were of 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. 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. 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 gospel writer luke reported a paralytic man was lowered through the tiled roof. Jesus was impressed by the faith of these men.

It has been suggested the greek for clay tile might have also meant packed clay. 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. 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. First jesus did what only god can do he forgave the man s sins.

But instead of giving healing the first thing jesus said was son thy sins be forgiven thee.