However the direction is not up and the situation is not out of control.
Verse in which a friend is lowered through a roof.
Sometimes faith is not mentioned and doesn t appear to be an issue in his healing ministry.
1 and again he entered into capernaum after some days.
When the devil blocks the door go through the roof.
Their love concern effort and faith all cry out to jesus for help so jesus helps the man.
English standard version and when they could not get near him because of the crowd they removed the roof above him and when they had made an opening they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.
In mark 2 we see a man go through the roof.
And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press they uncovered the roof where he was.
2 and straightway many were gathered together insomuch that there was no room to receive them no not so much as about the door.
Climb with the guy on wrapped in his bedding.
This is a get your hands dirty digging through the roof kind of faith.
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And it was noised that he was in the house.
Then when they got there it was time to dig to get through the roof tiles and ceiling.
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.
20 seeing their faith jesus said to the man young man your sins are forgiven 21 but the pharisees and teachers of religious law said to themselves who does he think he is.
They lowered their friend down to the place where jesus was.
This time however jesus sees the faith of the men lowering their paralyzed friend.
Then they lowered the man on his mat right down in front of jesus.
Luke 5 18 25new international version niv 18 some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before jesus 19 when they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd right in front of jesus.
They were going to get their friend to jesus.
When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd right in front of jesus.
So they went up to the roof and took off some tiles.
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 friends climbed up an outside staircase and dug a hole through the roof.
But they couldn t reach him because of the crowd.
And he preached the word unto them.
Jesus was impressed by the faith of these men.
It was a real commitment to dig into some stranger s roof and make a man sized hole in it.
They couldn t bring him to jesus because of the crowd so they dug a hole through the roof above his head.