The lame man had some very good friends.
The let the lame man down from teh roof top.
Good news translation because of the crowd however they could not get the man to him.
And he preached the word unto them.
We can learn a lesson about friendship from this story.
So they made a hole in the roof right above the place where jesus was.
People inside the house could reach up and take him as those outside let him down.
They were determined to get their friend to jesus.
They lowered him in front of jesus new american standard 1977 and not finding any way to bring him in because of the crowd they went up on the roof and let him down through the tiles with his stretcher right in the center in front of jesus.
Probably the roof was so low that no ropes were needed to let the man down.
5 when jesus saw their faith he said unto the sick of the palsy son thy sins be forgiven thee.
They even pulled him up on top of the house and made a hole in the roof to bring him to jesus.
3 and they come unto him bringing one sick of the palsy which was borne of four.
4 and when they could not come nigh unto him for the press they uncovered the roof where he was.
Sometimes a roller would be used to pack down the clay.
You can be such a good friend.
1 and again he entered into capernaum after some days.
And it was noised that he was in the house.
This made for a hard clay roof.
They made an opening in the tiles and let the man down on his stretcher among the people.
When they had made an opening they let the man down lying on his mat.
So they made a hole in the roof above him and let the man down in front of everyone.
To make a hole the men would have had to dig through the clay and remove some of the sticks.