John 5:1

Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem when the Jews were having another celebration.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2At one of the gates into the city called the Sheep Gate, there is a pool. In our language we call it Bethzatha. Around the pool were five open areas with roofs over them.

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Cross References

Exodus 34:23Three times each year all the men must come to worship me, Yahweh, the God of the Israeli people.

Deuteronomy 16:16“So, each year all of you Israeli men must gather with your families to worship Yahweh our God at the place that he will choose, to celebrate three festivals: The Passover Festival, the Harvest Festival, and the Festival of Living in Temporary Shelters. Each of you men must bring [LIT] an offering for Yahweh to these festivals

John 2:13Later, when it was almost time for the Jewish Passover celebration, Jesus and we his disciples 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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