Lowered Through The Roof

This bible activity is a word scramble based on jesus actions to heal and forgive a lame man who was lowered before him through the roof of the house where he was teaching.

Lowered through the roof.

Since they could not find a way to bring him in because of the crowd they went up on the roof and lowered him on the stretcher through the roof tiles into the middle of the crowd before jesus. A man who could not walk wanted to be healed by jesus. Since they were unable to get to jesus through the crowd they uncovered the roof above him made an opening and lowered the paralytic on his mat. You and i have friends who need to come to jesus.

Thank god jesus is not only the healer but he is our redeemer. 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. Jesus had spent quite a lot of time in and around capernaum. 18 some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before jesus.

So they tore a hole in this man s roof and lowered him down to jesus. Way to introduce the. 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. But instead of giving healing the first thing jesus said was son thy sins be forgiven thee jesus saw in this man a much greater need than healing for his body.

Then they lowered the man down through the roof to where jesus was. Contemporary english version but because of the crowd they could not get him to jesus. When the man s friends carried him to the house. The four men carried their friend up to the roof and made an opening in the roof.

An awning is not a roof and it is rolled up not broken up moreover the man was let down through the tiles which seems to indicate that the remaining tiles encased an opening through which he was lowered. The activity highlights eight elements of this event. The account of the healing of the paralyzed man in mark 2 1 12 contains a number of lessons for growing christians. Berean literal bible and not being able to come near to him on account of the crowd they removed the roof where he was and having broken it up they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying.

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.