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Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the midst before Jesus.
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Faith Overcomes Obstacles
Commentators explain that this was a feat of great determination. Jewish houses often had flat, tiled roofs with external staircases. The friends ascended the roof, removed the tiles, and lowered their friend on what was likely a small, portable pallet. This highlights their creative, strenuous effort, born from a desperate faith that Jesus was the only answer.
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By what way they might bring him in (ποιας εις ενεγκωσιν αυτον). Deliberative subjunctive of the direct question retained in the i…
19th Century
Anglican
With his couch.—The Greek word is the diminutive of the word translated “bed” in Luke 5:18, and is used, apparently, as S…
Baptist
And they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him. And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of t…
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The friends of the paralytic were motivated by earnestness and faith. The typical flat roof could be reached by an outside stairway. Roofing materi…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And when they could not find by what way As by the door, or in at a window of the house:
they might br…
Presbyterian
How many are there in our assemblies, where the gospel is preached, who do not sit under the Word, but are mere onlookers! It is to them like a sto…
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