Luke 5:19

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

but finding no way to bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the midst before Jesus.

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:2

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

Jeremiah 19:13

The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah—all the houses upon whose roofs incense has been burned to all the host of heaven, and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods—shall be defiled like the place of Topheth.’ ”

Matthew 10:27

What I tell you in the dark, utter in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim upon the housetops.

Matthew 24:17

let him who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house;

Mark 2:4

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 pallet on which the paralytic lay.

Deuteronomy 22:8

“When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if any one fall from it.

1 Samuel 9:25

And when they came down from the high place into the city, a bed was spread for Saul upon the roof, and he lay down to sleep.