Friends Lowered Him Through The Roof

This time however jesus sees the faith of the men lowering their paralyzed friend.

Friends lowered him through 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. Since they could not get him to jesus because of the crowd they made an opening in the roof above jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. Who wept at seeing the new temple that was built after the exiles return from babylon. They made an opening in the tiles and let the man down on his stretcher among the people.

What rich man sat in a pile of ashes. Sometimes faith is not mentioned and doesn t appear to be an issue in his healing ministry. This is the message of the colorful story of the paralytic man whose friends lowered him through the roof as jesus spoke in a crowded house luke 5 17 26. However the direction is not up and the situation is not out of control.

They couldn t bring him to jesus because of the crowd so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. The friends climbed up an outside staircase and dug a hole through the roof. Their love concern effort and faith all cry out to jesus for help so jesus helps the man. To help our friends find forgiveness we must bring them to jesus who has authority to forgive sins.

They lowered him in front of jesus new american standard 1977 and not finding any way to bring him in because of the crowd they went up on the roof and let him down through the tiles with his stretcher right in the center in front of jesus. 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. 20 when jesus saw their faith he said. 18 some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before jesus.

Rather than saying get up and walk jesus said your sins are forgiven the religious leaders kept quiet but jesus knew their thoughts. This is a get your hands dirty digging through the roof kind of faith. 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. It s a humorous story.

Prices taxes and tempers can all go through the roof in mark 2 we see a man go 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. Jesus words to the man surprised the pharisees and teachers of the law. Whose second husband phaltiel wept as he watched her return to her first husband david.

Mark tells us that it happened in capernaum. They lowered their friend down to the place where jesus was. Because the friends could not get through the crowd they carried their friend to the roof and lowered him down to jesus. Jesus was impressed by the faith of these men.

Luke 5 18 25 new international version niv.