"And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. "
Jeremiah 29:13
On a certain day, a large motley crowd gathered in a room in the town of Capernaum to hear Jesus preach. Mark 2:1-2 .
The crowd , as usual, was made up of diverse kinds of spectators .
There must have been people in there listening to Jesus , people whose "religious hobby " it was to attend any and all religious meetings ; just for them to be part of the crowd, just for them to say "I was there when the great minister of God was in town..... !".
These were the same as those persons in the present age who would listen , then they would interject with loud "Oh yeah ! Amen!. This is DEEP, man! Preach it , Pastor , pump it up!"!
They would clap , cheer and enjoy the songs , the preaching and the "religious atmosphere".
Thereafter they would go their merry way and continue living their usual lifestyles, a.k.a. the "business as usual" way.
The second type of people present there would have been those who had come hoping and believing that they would receive the word and the touch from Jesus to heal them to the utmost.
Such spectators would leave the place with life-changing miracles.
Then , there amongst the crowd were the privileged few who could get seats or standing spaces in the same room with Jesus .
Present were the Pharisees , the scribes and doctors of the law ; some of who were mockers and antagonists. These were people who would have come there to listen to Jesus and to antagonise Him. Their mission was to assess Jesus' compliance with the Judaic Scriptural doctrines and to question Jesus' spiritual level of authority to preach and heal the people .
Religious spies were present to hear Jesus speak and then use His words to accuse Him of "blasphemy " and all sorts of crimes. Luke 5:20-24
The Bible does not tell us whose idea it was to bring the afflicted man with his bed to that place where Jesus was teaching and preaching.
Was it the paralysed man whose faith made him
Jeremiah 29:13
On a certain day, a large motley crowd gathered in a room in the town of Capernaum to hear Jesus preach. Mark 2:1-2 .
The crowd , as usual, was made up of diverse kinds of spectators .
There must have been people in there listening to Jesus , people whose "religious hobby " it was to attend any and all religious meetings ; just for them to be part of the crowd, just for them to say "I was there when the great minister of God was in town..... !".
These were the same as those persons in the present age who would listen , then they would interject with loud "Oh yeah ! Amen!. This is DEEP, man! Preach it , Pastor , pump it up!"!
They would clap , cheer and enjoy the songs , the preaching and the "religious atmosphere".
Thereafter they would go their merry way and continue living their usual lifestyles, a.k.a. the "business as usual" way.
The second type of people present there would have been those who had come hoping and believing that they would receive the word and the touch from Jesus to heal them to the utmost.
Such spectators would leave the place with life-changing miracles.
Then , there amongst the crowd were the privileged few who could get seats or standing spaces in the same room with Jesus .
Present were the Pharisees , the scribes and doctors of the law ; some of who were mockers and antagonists. These were people who would have come there to listen to Jesus and to antagonise Him. Their mission was to assess Jesus' compliance with the Judaic Scriptural doctrines and to question Jesus' spiritual level of authority to preach and heal the people .
Religious spies were present to hear Jesus speak and then use His words to accuse Him of "blasphemy " and all sorts of crimes. Luke 5:20-24
On this occasion, as the crowd gathered around Jesus , notwithstanding their missions there, it was recorded that " and the power of God was present to heal them" .Luke 5 :17.
To that meeting came a group of people who carried on a bed a man crippled by palsy(paralysis).
1 And,
behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and
they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him ". Luke 5:18 . The Bible does not tell us whose idea it was to bring the afflicted man with his bed to that place where Jesus was teaching and preaching.
Was it the paralysed man whose faith made him
