He was paralyzed and had to be carried on his bed.
Friends tore the roof off to get to jesys.
Berean study bible 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.
But they didn t give up.
His friends found that they could not get him into the crowded house.
They were going to get their friend to jesus.
This might have stopped them faith series.
Treasury of scripture and when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude they went on the housetop and let him down through the tiling with his couch into.
It was a real commitment to dig into some stranger s roof and make a man sized hole in it.
Imagine the people s responses.
Faith to tear the roof off how often do we see a need that we can fill and yet we.
They climbed up on top of the thatched roof made a hole in it and lowered their friend down on a mat right to the feet of jesus.
I d guess anger because they are there to listen to jesus.
Suddenly a group of men tried to bring a friend of theirs into the meeting to get him close to jesus.
These friends were not going to be denied.
A paralyzed man s friends carried him to jesus for healing but they couldn t get through the crowds into the house where he was teaching.
These friends literally tore the tiles off the roof tore a hole in the roof and lowered the paralyzed man by a rope into the house.