What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in the light; and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the house-tops.

Let not him that is on the house-top,

he on the house-top -- let him not come down to take up any thing out of his house;

and he upon the house-top, let him not come down to the house, nor come in to take anything out of his house;

and not having found by what way they may bring him in because of the multitude, having gone up on the house-top, through the tiles they let him down, with the little couch, into the midst before Jesus,

because whatever in the darkness ye said, in the light shall be heard: and what to the ear ye spake in the inner-chambers, shall be proclaimed upon the house-tops.

in that day, he who shall be on the house top, and his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and he in the field, in like manner, let him not turn backward;

And on the morrow, as these are proceeding on the way, and are drawing nigh to the city, Peter went up upon the house-top to pray, about the sixth hour,

And on top of that, they learn to be idle, going around from house to house; and not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, talking about things they should not be.

he is staying with Simon, a tanner [of animal hides], whose house is close to the [Mediterranean] sea."