Luca 5:19

La Bibbia di Giovanni Diodati

E non trovando onde lo potessero metter dentro, per la moltitudine, salirono sopra il tetto della casa, e lo calaron pe’ tegoli, insieme col letticello, ivi in mezzo, davanti a Gesù.

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
Ma, non riuscendo ad introdurlo a causa della folla, salirono sul tetto della casa e lo calarono attraverso le tegole con il lettuccio, proprio in mezzo, davanti a Ges.

Riveduta Bibbia
E non trovando modo d’introdurlo a motivo della calca, salirono sul tetto, e fatta un’apertura fra i tegoli, lo calaron giù col suo lettuccio, in mezzo alla gente, davanti a Gesù.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they went: Mark 2:4

housetop: Deuteronomy 22:8, 2 Samuel 11:2, Jeremiah 19:13, Matthew 10:27

Reciprocal: Matthew 9:2 - they brought Luke 19:4 - climbed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when they could not find by what way,.... As by the door, or in at a window of the house:

they might bring him in; to Jesus, in the house:

because of the multitude; which was about the door, and all the fore part of the house:

they went upon the housetop; by a ladder, or pair of stairs, which usually were on the outside of houses; :- the houses of the Jews being flat roofed:

and let him down through the tiling with his couch, into the midst before Jesus; that is, they untiled the roof, or took away the tiles which were about the trap door, or passage, into the inside of the house; and so making it wider, let down the man upon his couch, or bed, into the middle of the room and of the people, just before Jesus, where he was sitting; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 9:1-7.

Luke 5:17

On a certain day - The time and place are not particularly mentioned here, but from Matthew 9:1 it seems it was at Capernaum.

Luke 5:19

The tiling - See the notes at Matthew 9:1-7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 5:19. Went upon the housetop — Matthew 24:17; Matthew 24:17.