• Luke 5:19
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures

    • 19 καὶ And μὴ not εὑρόντες having found ποίας of what sort of [way] εἰσενέγκωσιν they might bring in αὐτὸν him διὰ through τὸν the ὄχλον crowd ἀναβάντες having stepped up ἐπὶ upon τὸ the δῶμα roof διὰ through τῶν the κεράμων tiles καθῆκαν they let go down αὐτὸν him σὺν together with τῷ the κλινιδίῳ little bed εἰς into τὸ the μέσον midst ἔμπροσθεν in front τοῦ of the Ἰησοῦ. Jesus.

  • Luke 5:19
    American Standard Version

    • 19 And not finding by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his couch into the midst before Jesus.

  • Luke 5:19
    The Emphasized Bible

    • 19 And not finding by what means they might bring him in because of the multitude going up on the house-top through the tiling let they him down with the little-couch into the midst before Jesus.

  • Luke 5:19
    King James Version

    • 19 And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.

  • Luke Study Notes—Chapter 5
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)

    • 5:19

      through the tiling: The account about Jesus healing a paralytic man is recorded in the Gospels of Matthew (9:1-8), Mark (2:1-12), and Luke. The three accounts are complementary. Matthew mentions nothing about the man’s being lowered through the roof, while Mark explains that the man’s friends removed the roof and dug an opening through which they lowered the man on a stretcher. Luke says that the man was lowered “through the tiling.” (See study note on Mr 2:4.) The Greek word rendered “tiling” (keʹra·mos) can refer to “clay,” the material that the tiles were made of, but here the plural form of the Greek word seems to refer to “roof tiles.” There is evidence that tiled roofs were used in ancient Israel. While it is not possible to say exactly what kind of roof the accounts of Mark and Luke describe, the individual tiles may have been put on the mud roof or somehow embedded in it. In any case, the accounts clearly convey that the friends of the paralyzed man went to great lengths to put him before Jesus. These acts no doubt showed the depth of their faith, for all three accounts mention that Jesus “saw their faith.”​—Lu 5:20.