Lowering The Paralytic Through The Roof

3 and they came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men.

Lowering the paralytic through the roof.

Jesus the crowd the paralytic man and the religious leaders key location. And when they had. 4 being unable to get to him because of the crowd they removed the roof above him. House in capernaum key repetitions.

Paralytic s friends couldn t get to jesus because of the. Healing the paralytic at capernaum is one of the miracles of jesus in the gospels in matthew 9 1 8 mark 2 1 12 and luke 5 17 26. The friends climbed up an outside staircase and dug a hole through the roof. They lowered their friend down to the place where jesus was.

Then jesus healed the man so that he could get up and walk. 2 and many were gathered together so that there was no longer room not even near the door. Paralytic man lowered through roof matthew 9 1 8. 1 when he had come back to capernaum several days afterward it was heard that he was at home.

But the language is strongly against such a construction. First jesus did what only god can do he forgave the man s sins. 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.

Luke 5 17 26 structure key persons. Jesus was living in capernaum and teaching the people there and on one occasion the people gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left inside the house where he was teaching not even outside the door. And he was speaking the word to them.