John 5:5

And there was a certain man there being in ailment thirty-eight years,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4for a messenger at a set time was going down in the pool, and was troubling the water, the first then having gone in after the troubling of the water, became whole of whatever sickness he was held.]]

6him Jesus having seen lying, and having known that he is already a long time, He says to him, “Do you wish to become whole?”

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Cross References

Mark 9:21And He questioned his father, “How much time is it since this came to him?” And he said, “From childhood,

Luke 13:16And this one, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan bound eighteen years, behold, did [she] not ought to be loosed from this bond on the day of the Sabbath?”

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

Acts 3:2and a certain man, being lame from the womb of his mother, was being carried, whom they were laying every day at the gate of the temple, called Beautiful, to ask a kindness from those entering into the temple,

Acts 9:33and he found there a certain man, Aeneas by name—for eight years laid on a pallet—who was paralytic,

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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