John 5:1

After these things there was a celebration of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2and there is in Jerusalem by the sheep-[gate] a pool that is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches,

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Cross References

Exodus 34:23Three times in a year all your males appear before the Lord YHWH, God of Israel;

Deuteronomy 16:16Three times in a year all of your males appear before your God YHWH in the place which He chooses: in the Celebration of Unleavened Things, and in the Celebration of Weeks, and in the Celebration of Shelters; and they do not appear before YHWH empty;

John 2:13And 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 →

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