When the devil blocks the door go through the roof.
Verse in which a friend is lowered through a roof.
And it was noised that he was in the house.
And he preached the word unto them.
The friends climbed up an outside staircase and dug a hole through the roof.
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.
Their love concern effort and faith all cry out to jesus for help so jesus helps the man.
And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press they uncovered the roof where he was.
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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.
These friends were not going to be denied.
This is a get your hands dirty digging through the roof kind of faith.
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.
Then when they got there it was time to dig to get through the roof tiles and ceiling.
They couldn t bring him to jesus because of the crowd so they dug a hole through the roof above his head.
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 were going to get their friend to jesus.
Jesus was impressed by the faith of these men.
But they couldn t reach him because of the crowd.
In mark 2 we see a man go through the roof.
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.
It was a real commitment to dig into some stranger s roof and make a man sized hole in it.
Then they lowered the man on his mat right down in front of jesus.
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 sick man on his mat down into the crowd right in front of jesus.
And when they had broken it up they let down the bed wherein the king james bible online.
1 and again he entered into capernaum after some days.
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.
However the direction is not up and the situation is not out of control.