A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home — Capernaum has become Jesus' home base, and his return is immediately public knowledge. The word home (oikos) is significant: the house of Simon and Andrew has become the operational center of the Galilean ministry, the place people know to look for Jesus when he returns from the regional circuit. The report that he had come home triggers what verse 2 describes: the immediate gathering of a crowd. The healing of the paralytic that follows happens not in a synagogue or a public square but in a private house — the kingdom breaks into domestic space as readily as religious space.

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