The House Four Men Opened The Roof

Or maybe these four men saw jesus at this house and ran to get their paralytic friend to bring him to the healer.

The house four men opened the roof.

While he was preaching god s word to them four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. There was no way four men could carry a man through that crowd and into the house through the door. Even the doorway was jammed with people trying to see jesus. This done they tied ropes about the bed on which the man lay and lowered the bed very carefully into the room before jesus.

Then they tore up the roof tiling and saw where jesus stood. Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room even outside the door. When thou buildest a new house then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof that thou bring not blood upon thine house if any man fall from thence. The crowd of people was packed about the doorway trying to get a glimpse of jesus.

3 then a paralytic was brought to him carried by four men. 4 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. The room was packed with people. If they do not know jesus you can look for ways to bring them to jesus as the four friends in the story did.

When the crowd had refused to make way for them to pass the four friends carried the man up on the flat roof of the house. This enabled the four men to carry their paralytic friend and his bed up to the rooftop without spilling him and without employing an elaborate ladder or block and tackle system. If your friend knows jesus you can encourage him or her. So here is the humorous scene jesus is preaching in the house these four men carry their friend up the stair case onto the roof of the house.

Once there they begin to dig through the roof until they have made an opening large enough to lower their friend into the house. 5 when jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic son your sins are forgiven. 2 samuel 11 2 and it came to pass in an eveningtide that david arose from off his bed and walked upon the roof of the king s house. People could sleep on the roof when it was hot.

Remember also that a first century home had an outside staircase up to the flat roof. The four men probably used an outside stairway to carry their friend up to the roof. The syracuse orange men s basketball team drew the highest average home attendance in college basketball in 2015 16 with an average of 26 253. But the point is when they carried him to the house where jesus was they could not get him inside.

They couldn t bring him to jesus because of the crowd so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. The roof was not destroyed or damaged only temporarily opened up. They were determined to get their friend to jesus. And from the roof he saw a woman washing herself.

They even pulled him up on top of the house and made a hole in the roof to bring him to jesus.