This is the Bama Pag Das with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host Brent Billings. Today we look at the story of a paralyzed man and his faithfully determined friends who inspire his healing.

Yeah. So last week we took off from the Gospel of Matthew to talk about the next story that was in Matthew by going to the Gospel of Mark.

We need to talk about the next story of Matthew, which is the story of the paralytic, but I want to stay in the Gospel of Mark.

Now it's not where we left off in the Gospel of Mark. Mark puts it in a completely different place. We're going to have to go all the way back to Mark chapter 2.

Is that right? Did I get that right? Yeah. And you're going to start at the beginning of Mark chapter 2, Brent.

Let's talk about the next story of Matthew by talking about Mark again a few days later when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home.

They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door and he preached the word to them. Some men came bringing to him a paralyzed man carried by four of them.

Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd. Okay. So Jesus is in Capernaum and one of these insulas. Have we looked at insula yet?

In our, I don't know if we've looked at insula, have we? Maybe a little bit. Let's see here, maybe a little bit. Try and think of where we would have looked at insula already.

Well, did we look at it? We looked at Pharisees. We put insulas in the... Therese conversation. I know I had a picture. Did you have insula?

Yeah, we did. We did. We did talk. Okay. So Jesus is in one of those insula structures. In fact, we can even put the link of that episode or the presentation or whatever we have in the show notes of this episode.

So Jesus is back in this land of the religious triangle, the phariseic worldview, the world view that he is most a part of and aligned with, you could say, as far as his lifestyle and what he's teaching to.

And when he's trying to talk, the conversation he's trying to have. He's back there, he's teaching one of their homes. It's sort of been typical.

There would have been used to this rabbi in somebody's home teaching and also typical. The house is packed full. One of these insulas where you can fit tens of people.

Typically not hundreds of people. It'd have to be a pretty big insula. It might be able to fit close to 100 people in a large one.

But a ton of people just packed in this house, just wanting to hang on rabbi's every word. And along comes this paralytic carried by his four friends and we're told that they can't get to Jesus because this house is so packed.

Everybody will come to sit at the feet of a rabbi to hear him teach and talk, especially somebody as brilliant and as good with the text as this Jesus character.

He's in Capurna, in a home where he's based out of. I probably wouldn't have gotten him back from the other side of the lake.

It was Matthew who tells him anyway. And here they are and everybody is in the house. So go and pick up where you left off.

Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on.

Okay, so I love that part because they can't get into the house. And so they go all the way up on the roof of a home and they start digging through the roof.

Now I've heard a lot of people say this would have been hours like there are about. So the roofs are made with branches and then mud and then it depends what period of history they come from tiles and then more branches and then more mud and then more tiles.

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