Let Friend Down Thru Roof

Finding themselves unable however to bring him to jesus because of the crowd they untiled the roof just over his head and after clearing an opening they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying.

Let friend down thru 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. Jesus was impressed by the faith of these men. When they had broken a space big enough in the roof the four men let their friend down through the roof right in front of jesus. But since they found no way to carry him in because of the crowd they went up on the roof and let him down on the stretcher through the roof tiles right in front of jesus.

Jesus heals the man telling him to rise and take up his bed. Four friends bring their crippled friend to jesus and because of the crowds let him down through the roof. They lowered their friend down to the place where jesus was. However the direction is not up and the situation is not out of control.

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 account of the healing of the paralyzed man in mark 2 1 12 contains a number of lessons for growing christians. When they could not come near to him for the crowd they removed the roof where he was. Jesus told the man to get up take your bed and go to your house.

When they couldn t get near jesus they decided to go to the flat roof.