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Luke 5:19
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

19 But not finding a way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on the stretcher through the tiles[a] into the middle in front of Jesus.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:19 Through the tiles: Luke has adapted the story found in Mark to his non-Palestinian audience by changing “opened up the roof” (Mk 2:4, a reference to Palestinian straw and clay roofs) to through the tiles, a detail that reflects the Hellenistic Greco-Roman house with tiled roof.
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