Four Friends Bring The Paralitic Through The Roof

After digging through they lowered the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying.

Four friends bring the paralitic through the roof.

3 and they came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. While he was preaching god s word to them four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. So their faith led to action. The four men carried their friend up to the roof and made an opening in the roof.

Where do you see yourself in this story. Some people came bringing to him a paralyzed man carried by four men. People could sleep on the roof when it was hot. 8 6 the men believed jesus came from god and he could heal people.

And when they had broken through they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying. International standard version since they couldn t bring him to jesus because of the crowd they made an opening in the roof over the place where he was. Since they were not able to bring him to jesus because of the crowd they removed the roof above where he was. I made the paralyzed man and the bed according to the craft instructions found below.

The four men probably used an outside stairway to carry their friend up to the roof. Jesus had healed people before even people who were paralyzed. And when they had dug an opening they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying. Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room even outside the door.

Standing healed and whole the once paralyzed man walked through the crowd and out the door. When jesus saw how much faith these four men had he not only healed the paralyzed man he even forgave him of all his sins. It is a faith that takes great risks because of love. Then they lowered the man down through the roof to where jesus was.

Their love concern effort and faith all cry out to jesus for help so jesus helps the man. There was no way four men could carry a man through that crowd and into the house through the door. They couldn t bring him to jesus because of the crowd so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. But what about you.

This is a get your hands dirty digging through the roof kind of faith. Are you the friend who needs to cut a hole in the roof by sharing some truthful words with a sister who needs to hear them. 4 being unable to get to him because of the crowd they removed the roof above him. This story also lends itself well to a 3 d diorama dramatization in order to show the paralyzed man being lowered through the roof.

You and i have friends who need to come to jesus. Because the friends could not get through the crowd they carried their friend to the roof and lowered him down to jesus. Where i can only imagine his friends awaited to greet him. When they couldn t get near yeshua because of the crowd they removed the roof where he was.

This time however jesus sees the faith of the men lowering their paralyzed friend. Yeshua seeing their faith said to the paralyzed man son your sins are forgiven. I created my diorama by inserting felt into a shoe box and then placing my flannel graph characters into the box.