Let Him Down Through The Roof

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

Let him down through the roof.

The friends climbed up an outside staircase and dug a hole through the roof. Basic english bible. And when they had broken it up they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay. To let a man down through the roof was a device most strange and striking but it only gives point to the remark which we have now to make here.

To help us understand these lessons however let s consider the background for this miracle. But instead of giving healing the first thing jesus said was son thy sins be forgiven thee. Jesus told the man to get up take your bed and go to your house. The account of the healing of the paralyzed man in mark 2 1 12 contains a number of lessons for growing christians.

If we want to have souls saved we must not be too squeamish and delicate about conventionalities rules and proprieties for the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence. So they went up on the top of the house and let him down through the roof on his bed into the middle in front of jesus. And because of the mass of people there was no way to get him in. 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.

5 when jesus saw their faith he said unto the sick of the palsy son thy sins be forgiven thee. Jesus was impressed by the faith of these men. And when they had broken through they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying. So they carried him up on the roof made an opening in the tiles and let him down on his bed into the middle of the group in front of jesus.

When jesus saw their faith he told the man that his sins were forgiven. Since they were not able to bring him to jesus because of the crowd they removed the roof above where he was. 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. An awning is not a roof and it is rolled up not broken up moreover the man was let down through the tiles which seems to indicate that the remaining tiles encased an opening through which he was lowered.

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. The tiles were plates of burnt clay suitable for roofing rather than for building walls or parapets. Holman christian standard bible since they could not find a way to bring him in because of the crowd they went up on the roof and lowered him on the mat through the roof tiles into the middle of the crowd before jesus. So they tore a hole in this man s roof and lowered him down to jesus.

Holman christian standard bible. When they had made an opening they let the man down lying on his mat.