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Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there wasn’t room for a single person more, not even outside the door. And he preached the Word to them. Four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a stretcher. They couldn’t get to Jesus through the crowd, so they dug through the clay roof above his head and lowered the sick man on his stretcher, right down in front of Jesus.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 2:4 right down in front of Jesus, implied.

They gathered in such large numbers(A) 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,(B) carried by four of them. 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.

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