This story also lends itself well to a 3 d diorama dramatization in order to show the paralyzed man being lowered through the roof.
Four friends bring the paralitic through the roof.
I created my diorama by inserting felt into a shoe box and then placing my flannel graph characters into the box.
Roofs were often flat.
And when they had broken through they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying.
This is a get your hands dirty digging through the roof kind of faith.
Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room even outside the door.
8 6 the men believed jesus came from god and he could heal people.
3 and they came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men.
Their love concern effort and faith all cry out to jesus for help so jesus helps the man.
Jesus had healed people before even people who were paralyzed.
The four men carried their friend up to the roof and made an opening in the roof.
It is a faith that takes great risks because of love.
But what about you.
Where do you see yourself in this story.
People could sleep on the roof when it was hot.
Standing healed and whole the once paralyzed man walked through the crowd and out the door.
To make the roof the builder would lay sticks close together over the beams and cover them with hard packed clay.
Then they lowered the man down through the roof to where jesus was.
4 being unable to get to him because of the crowd they removed the roof above him.
I made the paralyzed man and the bed according to the craft instructions found below.
After digging through they lowered the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying.
Where i can only imagine his friends awaited to greet him.
You and i have friends who need to come to jesus.
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.
So their faith led to action.
Because the friends could not get through the crowd they carried their friend to the roof and lowered him down to jesus.
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.
Yeshua seeing their faith said to the paralyzed man son your sins are forgiven.
The crowd of people was packed about the doorway trying to get a glimpse of jesus.
And when they had dug an opening they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying.
The four men probably used an outside stairway to carry their friend up to the roof.
Some people came bringing to him a paralyzed man carried by four men.
Since they were not able to bring him to jesus because of the crowd they removed the roof above where he was.
While he was preaching god s word to them four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat.
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.