John 5:1

Some time later there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

In Context

2Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool with five covered colonnades, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda.

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Cross References

Exodus 34:23Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

Deuteronomy 16:16Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.

John 2:13When the Jewish Passover was near, 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 →

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