The House Four Men Opened The Roof

The crowd of people was packed about the doorway trying to get a glimpse of jesus.

The house four men opened the roof. 2 samuel 11 2 and it came to pass in an eveningtide that david arose from off his bed and walked upon the roof of the king s house. They couldn t bring him to jesus because of the crowd so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. Remember also that a first century home had an outside staircase up to the flat roof. But the point is when they carried him to the house where jesus was they could not get him inside.

You can be such a good friend. Even the doorway was jammed with people trying to see jesus. While he was preaching god s word to them four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. This done they tied ropes about the bed on which the man lay and lowered the bed very carefully into the room before jesus.

People could sleep on the roof when it was hot. If they do not know jesus you can look for ways to bring them to jesus as the four friends in the story did. Once there they begin to dig through the roof until they have made an opening large enough to lower their friend into the house. The carrier dome is a 49 250 seat domed sports stadium located on the campus of syracuse university in the university hill neighborhood of syracuse new york it is home to the syracuse orange football basketball and lacrosse teams.

There was no way four men could carry a man through that crowd and into the house through the door. This enabled the four men to carry their paralytic friend and his bed up to the rooftop without spilling him and without employing an elaborate ladder or block and tackle system. The syracuse orange men s basketball team drew the highest average home attendance in college basketball in 2015 16 with an average of 26 253. So here is the humorous scene jesus is preaching in the house these four men carry their friend up the stair case onto the roof of the house.

4 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. The room was packed with people. If your friend knows jesus you can encourage him or her. 3 then a paralytic was brought to him carried by four men.

5 when jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic son your sins are forgiven. When the crowd had refused to make way for them to pass the four friends carried the man up on the flat roof of the house. Then they tore up the roof tiling and saw where jesus stood. When thou buildest a new house then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof that thou bring not blood upon thine house if any man fall from thence.

And from the roof he saw a woman washing herself. Roofs were often flat. Or maybe these four men saw jesus at this house and ran to get their paralytic friend to bring him to the healer. Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room even outside the door.

The roof was not destroyed or damaged only temporarily opened up.