Their faith (την πιστιν αυτων). The faith of the four men and of the man himself. There is no reason for excluding his faith. They…

Verse 3. Borne of four. This means carried on a couch by four men.

The pre . This refers to the crowd, the multitude of pe…

And they came unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four. And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they…

The Venerable Bede: Because the compassion of God does not desert even worldly people, He grants them the grace of His presence…

Jesus recognized this ingenuity and persistence of the paralytic and his bearers as faith. But instead of healing the man of his lameness, Jesus fo…

When Jesus saw their faith
The faith of the sick man, and his friends, who seemed confident, that could they get at …

It was this man's misery that he needed to be so carried, and this shows the suffering state of human life. It was kind of those who so carried him…