His friends wanted to help him.
" Jesus is coming. Let us take our friend to Jesus," said the friends. "Let us take him to that house."
The friends went to the house. They took the man on his little bed. Oh no! They could not get into the house to see Jesus. There were too many people.
"I know," said one man. "Let us go up on the roof. Let us make a hole in the roof. Then we can let the sick man down with some ropes."
"Yes," said the friends. So that is what they did.