## Now some men came carrying ## These are new people in the story. Your language may have a way of showing that these are new people. English can also do it with “There were men who came carrying” or “There were men carrying.” ## mat ## This could be translated as "sleeping pad" or "bed" or "stretcher" or "couch." ## was paralyzed ## "could not move himself" ## And not finding by what way they might bring him in because of the crowd ## In some languages it might be more natural to reorder this. "But because of the crowd of people, they could not find a way to take the man inside. So...." ## they went up to the housetop ## Houses had flat roofs, and some houses had a ladder or staircase outside to make it easy to go up there. ## right in front of Jesus ## "directly in front of Jesus" or "immediately in front of Jesus"