John 5:4
For a malach Hashem from time to time descended into the berekhah (pool) and agitated the mayim; therefore, he who entered first after the agitation of the mayim, became whole, whatever choli (disease, sickness) he was held by.]
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
3In these lay a multitude of invalids — ivrim (blind men), pisechim (lame persons), paralyzed. [
Cross References
Psalms 119:60I made haste, 1 and delayed not to be shomer over Thy mitzvot. 1
Proverbs 8:17I love them that have ahavah for me; 1 and those that seek me shall find me. 1
Ezekiel 47:8Then said he + 47:8 the angelic being unto me, These mayim issue out toward the east country, and go down into the Aravah, and go into the + 47:8 Dead Sea; which being brought forth into the Sea, the mayim shall be healed.
Zechariah 13:1In Yom HaHu there shall be a makor (fountain) + 13:1 See Ps 36:9 [10] opened to the Bais Dovid and to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim for sin and for niddah (impurity). + 13:1 i.e., used figuratively but refers especially to untouchability of women during menstruation and other kinds of uncleanness
Matthew 6:33But seek first the Malchut Hashem and the Tzidkat Hashem, and all these things will be added to you.
Luke 13:24Strive to enter through the sha'ar hatzarut (gate of narrowness), because many, I say to you, will seek to enter and they will not be able to.
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 →