Imagine listening carefully to jesus when all of a sudden you hear something coming from above you.
How jesus healed a paralyzed man through the roof.
When jesus saw their faith he told the paralyzed man that his sins were forgiven.
When they couldn t get near jesus they went to the roof and uncovered the roof.
Matthew s writing tends to be abbreviated synopses of the events.
Healing the paralytic let down through the roof in capernaum.
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 ceiling is crumbling a bit and everyone stops and looks up to see what s going on.
One could be seen as the paralyzed man was able to get up and walk.
When they had broken a space big enough through the roof the four men let the man down through the roof.
The bible says that after digging through the roof the men lowered the mat that the paralyzed man was lying on down to where jesus was.
The men climb atop the house and dig a hole through the roof then lower the paralyzed man through the hole.
But the first miracle was unseen as jesus said he was granting forgiveness for the man s sins.
This second claim set jesus at odds with the pharisees and constituted a claim that jesus was the son of god.
A man who could not walk wanted to be healed by jesus.
Who does he think he is.
2 and they brought to him a paralytic lying on a bed.
For example matthew does not mention the intervening actions of the men how the men were able to get the paralyzed man to jesus.
The story of how jesus healed a paralyzed man shows two types of miracles.
The friends climbed up an outside staircase and dug a hole through the roof.
Some of the scribes thought to themselves.