Mark 2:4

2:4 When they were not able to bring him in because of the crowd, they removed the roof 1  above Jesus. 2  Then, 3  after tearing it out, they lowered the stretcher the paralytic was lying on.

1 sn A house in 1st century Palestine would have had a flat roof with stairs or a ladder going up. This access was often from the outside of the house.

2 tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

3 tn Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.