Luke 5:19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

but, finding no way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down on the stretcher through the tiles into the middle of the crowd in front of Jesus.

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:2

It happened, late one afternoon when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful.

Jeremiah 19:13

And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled like the place of Topheth—all the houses upon whose roofs offerings have been made to the whole host of heaven and libations have been poured out to other gods.

Matthew 10:27

What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops.

Matthew 24:17

the one on the housetop must not go down to take things from the house;

Mark 2:4

And when they could not bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and after having dug through it, they let down the mat on which the paralytic lay.

Deuteronomy 22:8

“When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof; otherwise you might have bloodguilt on your house, if anyone should fall from it.

1 Samuel 9:25

When they came down from the shrine into the town, a bed was spread for Saul on the roof, and he lay down to sleep.