Now I'm wondering, what if the house whose roof they destroyed (tiles in fact!) was Jesus' house? Then it would have been audacious on their part to break through the roof and risk incurring Jesus' ire. That may have been why Jesus admired these friends' faith.
This reminds me of the Canaanite woman who had that testy exchange with Jesus (who called her people 'dogs') or the woman with hemorrhage who dared to touch Jesus and in effect made him unclean. They also had to dared to do something that would anger Jesus.
But they had faith that Jesus could (and wanted to) heal them, their friend, or their daughter and they wanted this badly enough that they risked incurring Jesus' wrath. Because they took the risk, Jesus granted them their petition.
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