“And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.”
When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus — through the tiles is Luke's detail distinguishing his account from Mark's digging through the earthen roof. A Mediterranean tile roof requires different technique from a Palestinian earthen roof. The lowered him right in front of Jesus: the precision of the lowering communicates the friends' intention to place the paralyzed man directly in Jesus' line of sight.
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