Four Friends Bring The Paralitic Through The Roof

People could sleep on the roof when it was hot.

Four friends bring the paralitic through the roof.

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. And when they had dug an opening they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying. But what about you. I created my diorama by inserting felt into a shoe box and then placing my flannel graph characters into the box.

Where do you see yourself in this story. There was no way four men could carry a man through that crowd and into the house through the door. 8 6 the men believed jesus came from god and he could heal people. Because the friends could not get through the crowd they carried their friend to the roof and lowered him down to jesus.

The crowd of people was packed about the doorway trying to get a glimpse of jesus. So their faith led to action. After digging through they lowered the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying. You and i have friends who need to come to jesus.

Where i can only imagine his friends awaited to greet him. Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room even outside the door. Their love concern effort and faith all cry out to jesus for help so jesus helps the man. To make the roof the builder would lay sticks close together over the beams and cover them with hard packed clay.

When they couldn t get near yeshua because of the crowd they removed the roof where he was. And when they had broken through they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying. Since they were not able to bring him to jesus because of the crowd they removed the roof above where he was. 3 and they came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men.

This story also lends itself well to a 3 d diorama dramatization in order to show the paralyzed man being lowered through the roof. It is a faith that takes great risks because of love. 4 being unable to get to him because of the crowd they removed the roof above him. Roofs were often flat.

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. While he was preaching god s word to them four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. The four men carried their friend up to the roof and made an opening in the roof. Standing healed and whole the once paralyzed man walked through the crowd and out the door.

The four men probably used an outside stairway to carry their friend up to the roof. This is a get your hands dirty digging through the roof kind of faith. I made the paralyzed man and the bed according to the craft instructions found below. Yeshua seeing their faith said to the paralyzed man son your sins are forgiven.

Jesus had healed people before even people who were paralyzed. They couldn t bring him to jesus because of the crowd so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. This time however jesus sees the faith of the men lowering their paralyzed friend.