John 5:1
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 34:23Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord, the God of Israel.
Deuteronomy 16:16Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord your God in the place named by him; at the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tents: and they are not to come before the Lord with nothing in their hands;
John 2:13The time of the Passover of the Jews was near and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Matthew Henry on John 5:1
We have in the gospels a faithful record of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, Acts i. 1 . These two are interwoven, because what he taught explained what he did, and what he did confirmed what he taught. Accordingly, we have in this chapter a miracle and a sermon. I. The miracle was the cure of an impotent man that had been diseased thirty-eight years, with the circumstances of that cure, ver. 1-16 . II. The sermon was Christ's vindication of himself before the sanhedrim, when he was prosecuted as a… Read the whole commentary →