Friendship

In our narrative today, we see a small group of friends, one of which is not able to walk.  These friends have heard of Jesus and the miracles he has done and they know that Jesus will heal their friend if they can get to Him.

I can just see these friends talking about how to get their impaired friend to Jesus.  Perhaps one of them first saw or heard Jesus and brought the news to the others who then grew in faith.  They then decided to go to where they had heard Jesus was teaching only to find that the crowd was too great.

It is easy to imagine the people in the back of the crowd, straining to hear Jesus and ignoring these loud people with the impaired friend and his bed.  They may have been told to go home, there was no way they were going to get to Jesus today.  They probably sat down on the ground in despair and frustration.

What happened then?  Did they give up?  Did they make it to Jesus?  Let's find out!

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