Imagine listening carefully to jesus when all of a sudden you hear something coming from above you.
Jesus paralytic roof.
5 and jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic son your sins are forgiven 6 but some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts 7 why does this man speak that way.
B it was noised that he was in the house.
And when they had dug an opening they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying.
A hole in the roof.
One day jesus was teaching and pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there.
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.
They had come from every village of galilee and from judea and jerusalem.
And the power of the lord was with jesus to heal the sick.
The ceiling is crumbling a bit and everyone stops and looks up to see what s going on.
Jesus heals a paralytic at capernaum.
The attempt to get the paralytic in front of jesus called for extreme measures that included moving tiles on the roof which indicates that the house was owned by a wealthy man because most roofs were made of clay or straw and lowering their friend down to jesus.
The bible says that after digging through the roof the men lowered the mat that the paralyzed man was lying on down to where jesus was.
C luke 5 17 26.
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 story begins with the paralyzed man s friends finding a way to get him in front of jesus.