Jesus stands in stark contrast to modern faith healers.
Jesus paralytic roof modern.
5 which is easier to say your sins are forgiven or to say get up.
Like modern readers who read the present account in light of the markan.
Whether the paralytic had faith or not we cannot know.
The story is found in both mark 2 and matthew 9.
Then some people appeared bringing him a paralytic stretched out on a bed.
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.
It seems that most of the commentaries take at home to mean peter s home from mark 1 29 which seems to have functioned as the base for jesus ministry in capernaum.
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.
And being unable to get to him because of the crowd they removed the roof above him.
Stein states the possibility that it is jesus own home.
Good friends bring people to jesus.
Your sins are forgiven 3 and some of the scribes said to themselves this fellow blasphemes 4 and jesus knowing their thoughts said why are you thinking evil in your hearts.
2 and they brought to him a paralytic lying on a bed seeing their faith jesus said to the paralytic take courage son.
B they uncovered the roof where he was.
Jesus noticed the paralytic s need for spiritual healing as well as physical healing something no one else knew.
In john 5 14 jesus warned the paralytic at the pool of bethesda whom he healed not to continue in sin and prevent something worse from happening to him.
Since then and even in modern times mistaken priests have presumed to speak forgiveness.
Mark 2 3 4 jesus knows what s in our hearts mark 2 6 8 jesus has the power to heal and forgive sin.
This is why jesus pardoned the paralytic s sin luke 5 20.
The faith that jesus saw was faith that he was able and willing.
While both follow this majority opinion j.
Marcus allows that en oikÅ could simply mean in a house and r.
And when they had dug an opening they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying.
Commentary using the fourfold gospel.
And jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic my son your sins are forgiven.
Jesus got in the boat crossed the water and came to his own town.
We will be reminded how important it is for us to bring our friends to jesus.
Study the bible online using commentary on jesus heals a paralytic at capernaum.
Such power resides in jesus alone.
Some of the key points we will study are.
That is the faith of the people who brought the paralytic to him.
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The text says that jesus observed their faith not his faith.