Lowered Through The Roof

The tiles were plates of burnt clay suitable for roofing rather than for building walls or parapets.

Lowered through the roof.

When jesus saw how much faith these four men had he not only healed the paralyzed man he even forgave him of all his sins. They lowered their friend down to the place where jesus was. 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. The friends climbed up an outside staircase and dug a hole through the roof.

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. The activity highlights eight elements of this event. 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. However the direction is not up and the situation is not out of control.

Then they lowered the man on his mat right down in front of jesus. Then they lowered the man down through the roof to where jesus was. Prices taxes and tempers can all go through the roof in mark 2 we see a man go through the roof. This bible activity is a word scramble based on jesus actions to heal and forgive a lame man who was lowered before him through the roof of the house where he was teaching.

The four men carried their friend up to the roof and made an opening in the roof. Berean literal bible and not having found what way they should bring him in on account of the crowd having gone up on the housetop they let him down with the mat through the tiles into the midst before jesus. A paralysed man is forgiven and healed by jesus after being lowered through the roof. They couldn t bring him to jesus because of the crowd so they dug a hole through the roof above his head.

Jesus was impressed by the faith of these men. 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. So 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.