Talmage, “ Jesus the Christ”, Chapter 14) Jesus was deeply impressed by the faith and works of those who had thus labored to place a helpless paralytic before Him. They broke away part of the roof, making an opening, or enlarging that of the trapdoor such as the houses of that place and time were usually provided with and, to the surprise of the assembled crowd, they then let down through the tiling the portable couch upon which the palsied sufferer lay. Matthew 9:1-8 (The paralyzed man is brought through the roof)īy some means they carried the afflicted man to the flat roof of the house, probably by an outside stairway or by the use of a ladder, possibly by entering an adjoining house, ascending the stairs to its roof and crossing therefrom to the house within which Jesus was teaching. Luke 5:16-26 (The paralyzed man is brought through the roof) Mark 2:1-12 (The paralyzed man is brought through the roof) What is that one thing, which when you possess, you have all other virtues? It is compassion. Matthew 8:5-10 (The centurion and the man with palsy) Luke 7:1-10 (The centurion and the man with palsy) Mark 1:40-41 (Jesus has compassion on the leper) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “ The Rainy Day”, Ballads and Other Poems) Thy fate is a common fate to all, into each life some rain will fall. Hunter, “ Master, the Tempest Is Raging”, October 1984 General Conference)Įarth’s sun in the calm lake is mirrored,Īnd with joy I shall make the blest harborīe still, sad heart! and cease repining behind the cloud is the sun still shining. On the sea of Galilee, the stirring of the disciples’ faith was ultimately more important than the stilling of the sea, and so it was with her. Glue-Ins (free printables for your scriptures)īut as the days and the weeks went by, the God of life and love began to calm the winds and the waves of what this sweet woman called her ‘unsanctified heart.’ Her faith not only returned but it flourished, and like Job of old, she learned new things, things ‘too wonderful’ to have known before her despair.
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