John 5:5

Now there was a certain man there who had an ailment for thirty-eight years.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.

In Context

4For an angel from time to time descended into the pool and stirred up the water; therefore the first one having gone in after the stirring up of the water, became well of whatever disease he was suffering from.

6When Jesus saw this man lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you wish to become well?”

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Cross References

Mark 9:21So He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood.

Luke 13:16So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound these eighteen years, should she not be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?”

John 9:1And passing by, He saw a man blind from birth.

Acts 3:2And a man lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they would lay each day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple;

Acts 9:33And he found there a certain man named Aeneas, who had been confined to a bed for eight years, who was paralyzed.

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 →

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