The Paralytic Lowered Through The Roof

The house had a flat roof and outside stairs leading up to the roof.

The paralytic lowered through the roof.

Healing the paralytic let down through the roof in capernaum. Some men came carrying a paralyzed man but could not get inside so they made an opening in the roof above jesus and then lowered the man down. Many roofs of the galilean villages were overlain with packed clay. So the four men went up on the roof removed some tiles and lowered the paralyzed man on his bedroll into the middle of the.

Jesus was impressed by the faith of these men. Capernaum is also the location of the healing of the paralytic lowered by friends through the roof to reach jesus as reported in mark 2 1 12 and luke 5 17 26. In matthew 9 1 the town is referred to only as his own city and the narrative in matthew 9 2 7 does not mention the. They lowered their friend down to the place where jesus was.

The friends climbed up an outside staircase and dug a hole through the roof. 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 four men tried to take the paralyzed man into the house to lay him before jesus. Most likely then the paralytic who was let down through the roof was weighed down by a burden of guilt which he had carried rightly or wrongly for many years.

But the language is strongly against such a construction. Healing the paralytic. 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. They couldn t get past the crowd at the door.

The gospel writer luke reported a paralytic man was lowered through the tiled roof. To hear the lord pronounce that his sins were forgiven lifted a great load from this man s guilty conscience. As late as the early 20th century some of the roofs in tiberias were of packed clay. Your sins are forgiven 3 and some of the scribes said to themselves this fellowblasphemes 4 and jesus knowing their thoughts said why are you thinking evil in your hearts.

When jesus saw their faith he said to the paralyzed man son your sins are forgiven some of the teachers of the law interpreted this as blasphemy since god alone can forgive sins. 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. 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. It has been suggested the greek for clay tile might have also meant packed clay.

A paralyzed man on a bedroll.