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.
Lowered down to jesus throuh roof bible.
Weymouth bible when they could not come near to him for the crowd they removed the roof where he was.
1 forgave his sins 2 healed him so that he could walk.
How did the man s friends get him close to jesus.
According to luke 7 1 10 and matthew 8 5 this is also the place where jesus healed the servant of a roman centurion who had asked for his help.
Then they lowered the man on his mat right down in front of jesus.
Then they lowered their friend down into the house through the roof.
Other translations say made an opening removed part of the roof and uncovered the roof.
So they tore a hole in this man s roof and lowered him down to jesus.
Jesus told the man to get up take your bed and go to your house.
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.
Seeing their faith jesus said to the paralyzed man my child your sins are forgiven let s focus on the phrase dug a hole through the roof.
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.
But instead of giving healing the first thing jesus said was son thy sins be forgiven thee.
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.
They climbed on the roof and made a hole in it.
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.
When jesus saw their faith he told the man that his sins were forgiven.
What two things did jesus do for the man.
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.
The account of the healing of the paralyzed man in mark 2 1 12 contains a number of lessons for growing christians.
They couldn t bring him to jesus because of the crowd so they dug a hole through the roof above his head.
When they couldn t get near jesus they decided to go to the flat roof.