Tore A Hole In The Roof To See Jesus

They lowered their friend down to the place where jesus was.

Tore a hole in the roof to see jesus.

They earned their spot. All of a sudden you start to hear some banging on the roof. His bed to jesus. Man goes through roof to see jesus.

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. When they had made an opening they let the man down lying on his mat. And when they had dug an opening they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying. Because of the crowd however they could not get the man to him.

Then the roof begins to fall in on you. These friends literally tore the tiles off the roof tore a hole in the roof and lowered the paralyzed man by a rope into the house. And jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic my son your sins are forgiven. Holman christian standard bible since they were not able to bring him to jesus because of the crowd they removed the roof above where he was.

Imagine the people s responses. Mark 2 3 5 and they came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. So they tore a hole in this man s roof and lowered him down to jesus. First principle faith works through the power of agreement.

In scripture we read of new songs new mercies a new creation a new heaven and earth new names and new wineskins. 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 paralyzed man s friends chopped a hole in the roof and lowered him his bed and all his sorrows into the midst of the crowd who had filled the house to be with jesus. I d guess anger because they are there to listen to jesus.

It was a real commitment to dig into some stranger s roof and make a man sized hole in it. But instead of giving healing the first thing jesus said was son thy sins be forgiven thee. Such was their love for their friend and confidence in jesus power and willingness to help that they would interrupt his discussions with the local theologians by coming through the roof. The friends climbed up an outside staircase and dug a hole through the roof.

Praise the lord that he is the god of new things. This is a lesson about the friends bringing a man that couldn t walk to see jesus but there were so many people they had to put a hole in the roof and let him down. There is great power when your faith moves in agreement with the faith of others. No man had ever been brought to jesus through a hole in a roof before either but it worked.

So they made a hole in the roof right above the place where jesus was.