By John and Anne Duddington
We all know the story of the paralytic man brought to Jesus as told in Mark 2:1-4. However, if we read it carefully we become aware of a group who played a vital but often overlooked part:
He was preaching the word to them when some people came bringing him a paralytic carried by four men, but as the crowd made it impossible to get the man to him, they stripped the roof over the place where Jesus was; and when they had made an opening, they lowered the stretcher on which the paralytic lay.
