Man Lowered Through Roof To See Jesus

Who does he think he is.

Man lowered through roof to see jesus.

With love and compassion jesus forgave the man s sins and healed him completely. However the direction is not up and the situation is not out of control. Since they could not get him to jesus because of the crowd they made an opening in the roof above jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. In scripture we read of new songs new mercies a new creation a new heaven and earth new names and new wineskins.

English standard version but finding no way to bring him in because of the crowd they went up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the midst before jesus. When they couldn t get near jesus they went to the roof and uncovered the roof. New living translation they couldn t bring him to jesus because of the crowd so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. The activity highlights eight elements of this event.

Praise the lord that he is the god of new things. Some of the scribes thought to themselves. Jesus was impressed by the faith of these men. The four men carried their friend up to the roof and made an opening in the roof.

They lowered their friend down to the place where jesus was. It also underscores a bottom line lesson from the biblical record of the account. When jesus saw their faith he told the paralyzed man that his sins were forgiven. When they had broken a space big enough through the roof the four men let the man down through the roof.

In mark 2 we see a man go through the roof. You and i have friends who need to come to jesus. What an amazing picture of friendship devotion and love we see here. The friends climbed up an outside staircase and dug a hole through the roof.

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. 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. No man had ever been brought to jesus through a hole in a roof before either but it worked. So they went up to the roof and took off some tiles.

Believing that jesus could heal their friend the men tore away part of a roof so they could lower the man to jesus. Then they lowered the sick man on his mat down into the crowd right in front of jesus. When jesus saw how much faith these four men had he not only healed the paralyzed man he even forgave him of all his sins. This bible activity is a word scramble based on jesus actions to heal and forgive a lame man who was lowered before him through the roof of the house where he was teaching.