Man On The Mat Bible

Taking up his mat and going home.

Man on the mat bible.

The man got up and took his mat. The bible describes in luke 5 25 26. The bible says that after digging through the roof the men lowered the mat that the paralyzed man was lying on down to where jesus was. They praised god and said we have never seen anything like this mark 2 6 12.

The ceiling is crumbling a bit and everyone stops and looks up to see what s going on. The man on the mat read john. 2 when jesus returned to capernaum several days later the news spread quickly that he was back home. Some were blind some were crippled and some were paralyzed and they.

While he was preaching god s word to them 3 four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. They lowered the man on a mat right in front of jesus. Jesus heals a man brought on his sleeping mat by four friends. Imagine listening carefully to jesus when all of a sudden you hear something coming from above you.

Immediately he stood up in front of them took what he had been lying on and went home praising god. Pick up your mat and walk john 5 8. The man was instantly cured and he picked up his mat and walked verse 9. 5 later jesus went to jerusalem for a special feast.

All the people were amazed. By the power of jesus words to him the man was healed instantly and was then able to put jesus command in action. The term son of man appears in psalm 80 17 noting the man at god s right hand and again in the messianic prophecy in daniel 7 13. The four friends climbed the stairs and removed the roof tiles.

One of the reasons we stay stuck in our old life is because we cannot even imagine the real possibilities of a new life. Jesus healed him and the man went home. Frankly we don t know how to live as resurrected people. English standard version and when they could not get near him because of the crowd they removed the roof above him and when they had made an opening they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.

2 in jerusalem there is a pool with five covered porches which is called bethesda in the hebrew language. 4 they couldn t bring him to jesus because of. Then he walked away while everyone watched. Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a sleeping mat.

Consider the man in john chapter 5 who was an invalid for 38 years lying on a mat by the sheep gate pool in jerusalem. Houses were constructed mainly of clay and stone and were mainly flat roofed with a stairway at the side of the house. 2 soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room even outside the door. The man did not need quicker reflexes or beneficent angels or enchanted water.

The man needed jesus. Then they lowered the man on his mat right down in front of jesus. John 5 new century version ncv jesus heals a man at a pool. Amazingly not everyone was happy about the man s miraculous healing.