Through the Roof: Mark 2:1-12

The house was suffocating. Bodies packed the doorway three deep, faces pressed against windows, voices straining to hear. Somewhere inside, Jesus was teaching, but most of the crowd could only catch fragments. The religious scholars had claimed the best seats, of course—Pharisees and teachers of the law who had traveled from Jerusalem to investigate this Galilean phenomenon. Outside, four men arrived carrying their friend on a mat.…