It can be used for several different lessons and it can used for any group discussion activity.
Jesus healing the man lowered in the roof.
Point out that jesus healed both the man s physical problem and his heart.
And they were trying to bring him in and to set him down in front of him.
If the man fell off the mat while being lowered down he would be injured even more than he already was and he he would be unable to help himself back onto the mat.
A stout parapet would have aided rather than hindered if the body had been lowered into the court b 5 and jesus seeing their faith the four friends of the sick man showed their faith by those bold and persistent efforts which took liberties with the house of a neighbor.
It seemed that these men showed up from every village in all galilee and judea as well as from jerusalem and the lord s healing power was strongly with jesus.
They lowered their friend down to the place where jesus was.
First jesus did what only god can do he forgave the man s sins.
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.
The man s friends had done their best to get him to jesus and the man himself had risked giving his all for the healing that he hoped jesus would give him.
Jesus was impressed by the faith of these men.
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.
Help them realize that it was because everyone could see whether the man could walk versus his sins being forgiven not being seen by others.
The account of the healing of the paralyzed man in mark 2 1 12 contains a number of lessons for growing christians.
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And the palsied man showed his faith by consenting to the extraordinary.
18 and some men were carrying on a bed a man who was paralyzed.
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The friends climbed up an outside staircase and dug a hole through the roof.
Jesus heals a paralyzed man one day while jesus was teaching some pharisees and teachers of religious law were sitting nearby.
They tried to take him inside to jesus but.
Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a sleeping mat.
Then jesus healed the man so that he could get up and walk.
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.