Let Friend Down Thru Roof

When they could not come near to him for the crowd they removed the roof where he was.

Let friend down thru roof.

Jesus told the man to get up take your bed and go to your house. But since they found no way to carry him in because of the crowd they went up on the roof and let him down on the stretcher through the roof tiles right in front of jesus. 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. Finding themselves unable however to bring him to jesus because of the crowd they untiled the roof just over his head and after clearing an opening they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying.

Four friends bring their crippled friend to jesus and because of the crowds let him down through the roof. When they had broken a space big enough in the roof the four men let their friend down through the roof right in front of jesus. 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. When they couldn t get near jesus they decided to go to the flat roof.

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

Jesus was impressed by the faith of these men.