Sometimes a roller would be used to pack down the clay.
Paralytic through roof.
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.
On the paralytic let down through the roof.
People could sleep on the roof when it was hot.
20 seeing their faith.
Luke 5 18 25 new international version niv.
To make the roof the builder would lay sticks close together over the beams and cover them with hard packed clay.
18 some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before jesus.
Most likely then the paralytic who was let down through the roof was weighed down by a burden of guilt which he had carried rightly or wrongly for many years.
Having lately come across the incident of the paralytic 1 who lay upon his bed beside the pool we discovered a rich and large treasure not by delving in the ground but by diving into his heart.
Jesus was living in capernaum and teaching the people there and on one occasion the people gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left inside the house where he was teaching not even outside the door.
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2 and they brought to him a paralytic lying on a bed.
To hear the lord pronounce that his sins were forgiven lifted a great load from this man s guilty conscience.
And concerning the equality of the divine father and the son.
Some have thought that removing the roof merely means that they took away the awning over the court and also that the removal of the tile merely means that they took down the parapet or wall which prevented people from falling from the roof into the court.
This made for a hard clay roof.
19 when they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd right in front of jesus.
Berean literal bible and not being able to come near to him on account of the crowd they removed the roof where he was and having broken it up they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was.
C and let him down through the tiles with his couch into the midst before jesus.
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And any lingering doubts about the truth of his forgiven status were.
Many roofs of the galilean villages were overlain with packed clay.
As late as the early 20th century some of the roofs in tiberias were of packed clay.
To make a hole the men would have had to dig through the clay and remove some of the sticks.
Seeing their faith jesus said to the paralytic.
The gospel writer luke reported a paralytic man was lowered through the tiled roof.
Healing the paralytic at capernaum is one of the miracles of jesus in the gospels in matthew 9 1 8 mark 2 1 12 and luke 5 17 26.
19 but 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 into the middle of the crowd in front of jesus.