They do everything they do to have men see it. They wear wide Scripture texts as charms, and they wear large tassels,

Be persistent in prayer and wide awake about it when you give thanks.

May the Lord make your love for one another and for all men wide and full like my love for you,

And Jesus forbade them to tell anyone about it, but the more he forbade them the more they spread the news far and wide.

As they could not get him near Jesus on account of the crowd, they broke open the roof just over his head, and through the opening they lowered the mat with the paralytic lying on it.

"To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: " 'He who is holy and true, who carries the key of David, who opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one shall open, speaks thus: