John 5:4
+ 5:4 The best ancient copies omit vs. 4, For an angel of the Lord went down and stirred up the water at certain times and whoever stepped in while the water was stirring was healed from whatever disease he suffered from .
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In Context
5A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
Cross References
Psalms 119:60I hurry and do not delay 1 to keep your commandments. 1
Proverbs 8:17I love those who love me, 1 and those who diligently seek me, find me. 1
Ezekiel 47:8The man said to me, “This water is going out to the eastern territory and down to the Arabah; this water flows into the Salt Sea and will make it fresh.
Zechariah 13:1“On that day a spring will be opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for their sin and impurity.
Matthew 6:33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you.
Luke 13:24“Struggle to enter through the narrow door, because, I say to you, many will want to enter, but will not be able to enter.
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 →