The Helpless and the Helpers

[433 words] As all of the miracles of our Lord are impressive, the one about the healed paralytic is especially impressive to me. In Mark 2:1-12 the reader is immediately taken back to a first century home located in Capernaum. It was likely just a small flat, rectangular in shape with an open courtyard in the center area. There would have been one door to enter the home, and through the door an enclosed porch area where the Lord would have been as he preached to the people. The roof of the flat would have been made of tiles. The man whom the Bible calls a paralytic (sick of the palsy), was carried by friends to the home where Jesus was preaching. Since there was a massive crowd hindering this sick man’s friends ability to carry the paralytic near to the Lord, they made their way to the rooftop and…