In Matthew 9:8 the crowd chose to glorify God in response to Jesus' power. They glorified God who had given that kind of power to men. Scripture doesn't tell us but the people understood that he had this authority because He was the Son of God. Still, the crowd glorified God.
In response to your question about the paralytic man's friends: In Mark 2:5 we see that Jesus saw the faith of the paralytic man's friends. Keep in mind the man was paralyzed. He had to rely on his friends to get him to Jesus. The persistent effort and aggressiveness of his friends were evidence of their faith in Christ to heal.
In the time of Christ, most homes in Israel had flat roofs. There would be a stairway outside that went up to the roof. The roof was made from dried-out slabs of clay. A uniform coat of fresh, wet clay was then put over the slabs of hardened clay to seal out the rain. The paralytic man's friends took him to the roof of the house and dug out the top coat of clay, then they removed several of the slabs until they had made enough room to lower him down in front of Jesus.
The paralytic man's friends had a great love for their friend and showed great faith in Jesus.
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