When jesus saw their faith he said to the man take heart son.
Jesus paralytic roof modern.
Your sins are forgiven 3 at this some of the teachers of the law said to themselves this fellow is blaspheming.
2 some men brought to him a paralyzed man lying on a mat.
2 and they brought to him a paralytic lying on a bed.
Jesus sees their effort as an act of collective faith.
Mark however portrayed a typical galilean home with a mud thatch roof that must be dug through whereas luke portrayed a home such as that in which theophilus lived which had a tile roof.
When jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic son your sins are forgiven mark 2 5.
First forgive his sins and then heal him in order to be healed we first have to be forgiven.
For example we see that the disciples in john 9 2 assume that a man s blindness is owing to either his own sin or perhaps that of his parents.
Regrettably the community of faith plays a vanishingly small role in most christians work lives in the modern west.
Healing the paralytic.
The sins at stake in the asking of forgiveness are probably not related to the dismantling of the roof.
Rather a first century reader would likely connect the forgiven sins with the man s paralysis.
5 20 when jesus saw their faith.
And jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic my son your sins are forgiven.
Your sins are forgiven 3 and some of the scribes said to themselves this fellowblasphemes 4 and jesus knowing their thoughts said why are you thinking evil in your hearts.
And being unable to get to him because of the crowd they removed the roof above him.
He really wanted to get up close to jesus and when meeting him jesus did two things.
Jesus the paralytic friends the sign of a new walk.
18 and behold some men were bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed and they were seeking to bring him in and lay him before jesus 19 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.
The host invited jesus into his home and was left with a hole in his roof lk 5 19 but he witnessed amazing things when jesus healed the paralytic man lk 5 26.
Healing the paralytic let down through the roof in capernaum.
Both conveyed accurately what they wanted to say i e that the paralytic was lowered into jesus presence through the roof.
The paralytic man understood this and that is why he desperately wanted to get close to jesus being lowered down the roof.
Mark 2 4 since they could not get him to jesus because of the crowd they made an opening in the roof above jesus and after digging through it lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on.
Jesus stepped into a boat crossed over and came to his own town.
However it may enable the host to witness god doing amazing things.
Inviting jesus into a home can be costly.
Seeing their faith jesus said to the paralytic take courage son.