² And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. ^3 (A)And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. ⁴ And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, ^(B)they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.