4 Mais ne pouvant approcher de lui à cause de la foule, ils découvrirent le toit de la maison où il était; et l'ayant percé, ils descendirent le lit où le paralytique était couché.
4
Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on.
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