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# They could not find a way to bring him in because of the crowd, so
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In some languages it might be more natural to reorder this. Alternate translation: "But because of the crowd of people, they could not find a way to bring the man inside. So"
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# because of the crowd
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It is clear that the reason they could not enter was that the crowd was so large that there was no room for them. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# they went up to the housetop
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Houses had flat roofs, and some houses had a ladder or staircase outside to make it easy to go up there. This can be stated. Alternate translation: "they went up to the flat roof of the house" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# right in front of Jesus
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"directly in front of Jesus" or "immediately in front of Jesus"
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