John 5:5

Now there was a certain man there who had been sick for 38 years.

Family 35 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4because an angel would go down from time to time into the pool and stir up the water —then the first one to get in after the stirring of the water became well of whatever disease that was holding him.

6Seeing this man lying there and knowing that he had already been sick a long time, Jesus says to him, “Do you want to get well?”

Read all of John 5

Cross References

Mark 9:21Then 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 kept bound during eighteen long years, be freed from this bond on the Sabbath day?”

John 9:1Now as He was passing by He saw a man blind from birth.

Acts 3:2And a certain man, who had actually been lame from his mother's womb, was being carried (they would lay him daily at the temple gate, the one called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple),

Acts 9:33And there he found a certain man named Aeneas who was paralyzed—he had been lying on a pallet for eight years.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study John 5:5