The House Four Men Opened The Roof

This done they tied ropes about the bed on which the man lay and lowered the bed very carefully into the room before jesus.

The house four men opened the roof.

Mark 2 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. 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. Now houses in that day were usually constructed with flat roofs. And when they had dug an opening they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying.

Four men bring their paralyzed friend to jesus. Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house. Mark 2 3 5 and they came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. Like many palestinian dwellings this house probably had an outside stairway leading to a flat roof.

A composite of grass clay clay tiles and laths. The four men probably used an outside stairway to carry their friend up to the roof. People could sleep on the roof when it was hot. Roofs were often flat.

The crowd of people was packed about the doorway trying to get a glimpse of jesus. Four friends bring their crippled friend to jesus and because of the crowds let him down through the roof. When they arrive at the house the crowd is so large that they cannot get into the house through the door. 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.

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. 3 then a paralytic was brought to him carried by four men. And being unable to get to him because of the crowd they removed the roof above him.

The construction of the roof itself it describes as. Then they tore up the roof tiling and saw where jesus stood. We are not told in what part of the house jesus stood but evidently an opening was made in the flat roof above him and the man was lowered to the floor in front of jesus by means of short straps or pieces of rope fastened to the four corners of the bed. A set of stairs on the side of the house allowed access to the roof which was used much like we use a deck in our day.

And jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic my son your sins are forgiven. They couldn t bring him to jesus because of the crowd so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. The bible knowledge commentary says the following about the construction of this house. They believe that if they can get this man to jesus then jesus can heal his body.

So the men went onto the roof.