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and notes that Judean "roofs were generally flat and made of thatch and dried mud" and The Living Bible refers to a "clay roof". Jesus is impressed by their effort, praising all the men's faith, and he tells the paralytic that his sins are forgiven. Theophylact includes the paralytic as a person of faith: otherwise he would not have allowed himself to be carried up onto the roof of the house. It has also been argued, to the contrary, that

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