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This is not the Jesus I was taught in Sunday School as a child. Did he chang with time?
. Then some people came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by
four of them. 4. And when they could not bring him to Jesus because of
the crowd, they removed the roof above him; and after having dug through
it, they let down the mat on which the paralytic lay. 5. When Jesus saw
this he grew angry, “Why did you wreck my roof? Do you have any idea
how much that cost to install? Do you know how many tables and chairs I
had to make in my carpentry shop to pay for that roof? The reeds alone
cost five talents. I had them carted in from Bethany.” 6. The
disciples had never seen Jesus so angry about his possessions. He
continued, “This house is my life. And the roof is the best part.” The
disciples fell silent. 7. “It’s bad enough that you trash my private
property, now you want me to heal you?” said Jesus, “And did you not see
the stone walls around this house?” “Yes,” said the man’s friends.
“Are these not the stone walls common to the towns and villages of
Galilee?” 8. “No,” Jesus answered. “This is a gated community. How
did you get in?”
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