Luke 5:19
But since they found no way to carry him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down on the stretcher through the roof tiles right in front of Jesus.
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- Mark 2:4 : 4 When they were not able to bring him in because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Jesus. Then, after tearing it out, they lowered the stretcher the paralytic was lying on.
- Deut 22:8 : 8 If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail around your roof to avoid being culpable in the event someone should fall from it.
- Matt 10:27 : 27 What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.
- Matt 24:17 : 17 The one on the roof must not come down to take anything out of his house,
- 2 Sam 11:2 : 2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of his palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. Now this woman was very attractive.
- Jer 19:13 : 13 The houses in Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled by dead bodies just like this place, Topheth. For they offered sacrifice to the stars and poured out drink offerings to other gods on the roofs of those houses.’”
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2So many gathered that there was no longer any room, not even by the door, and he preached the word to them.
3Some people came bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them.
4When they were not able to bring him in because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Jesus. Then, after tearing it out, they lowered the stretcher the paralytic was lying on.
5When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic,“Son, your sins are forgiven.”
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17Healing and Forgiving a Paralytic Now on one of those days, while he was teaching, there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting nearby(who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem), and the power of the Lord was with him to heal.
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23Which is easier, to say,‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say,‘Stand up and walk’?
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25Immediately he stood up before them, picked up the stretcher he had been lying on, and went home, glorifying God.
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11“I tell you, stand up, take your stretcher, and go home.”
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