John 5:1
After this there was a Jewish festival, so Jesus went to Jerusalem.
Free Bible Version
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 every year all your males must appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
Deuteronomy 16:16All your men must come before the Lord your God in the place He will choose three times every year: the Festival of Bread without Yeast, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters. No one should come before the Lord without an offering.
John 2:13Since it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went on 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 →