John 5:4
For a heavenly agent went down at a certain time into the pool, and agitated the water. Therefore the first man who stepped in after the agitation of the water became well from whatever affliction he had.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
5And a certain man was there who was thirty-eight years in the weakness.
Cross References
Psalms 119:60I made haste, and delayed not, to observe thy commandments.
Proverbs 8:17I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently shall find me.
Ezekiel 47:8Then said he to me, These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah. And they shall go toward the sea, into the sea which were made to issue forth, and the waters shall be healed.
Zechariah 13:1In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
Matthew 6:33But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Luke 13:24Compete to enter in by the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
Matthew Henry on John 5:2-17
The Cure at the Pool of Bethesda. 1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of… Read the whole commentary →