In mark 2 we see a man go through the roof.
Verse in which a friend is lowered through a roof.
However the direction is not up and the situation is not out of control.
Their love concern effort and faith all cry out to jesus for help so jesus helps the man.
20 seeing their faith jesus said to the man young man your sins are forgiven 21 but the pharisees and teachers of religious law said to themselves who does he think he is.
They couldn t bring him to jesus because of the crowd so they dug a hole through the roof above his head.
1 and again he entered into capernaum after some days.
2 and straightway many were gathered together insomuch that there was no room to receive them no not so much as about the door.
Then when they got there it was time to dig to get through the roof tiles and ceiling.
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Sometimes faith is not mentioned and doesn t appear to be an issue in his healing ministry.
And when they had broken it up they let down the bed wherein the king james bible online.
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.
They lowered their friend down to the place where jesus was.
Jesus was impressed by the faith of these men.
And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press they uncovered the roof where he was.
Luke 5 18 25new international version niv 18 some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before jesus 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.
Then they lowered the sick man on his mat down into the crowd right in front of jesus.
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.
English standard version and when they could not get near him because of the crowd they removed the roof above him and when they had made an opening they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.
It was a real commitment to dig into some stranger s roof and make a man sized hole in it.
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.
But they couldn t reach him because of the crowd.
Then they lowered the man on his mat right down in front of jesus.
These friends were not going to be denied.
And it was noised that he was in the house.
They were going to get their friend to jesus.
And he preached the word unto them.
The friends climbed up an outside staircase and dug a hole through the roof.
This is a get your hands dirty digging through the roof kind of faith.
When the devil blocks the door go through the roof.