But if some of the branches have been broken off, and thou though a wild olive hast been grafted in among them, and become a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

Wilt thou say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in?

Admitted; by unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not high minded, but fear:

and not being able to come nigh him because of the crowd, they stripped off the roofing of the house where he was; and having broken a way through, they let down with ropes the couch, on which the paralytic lay.