John 5:5

A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

4for an angel went down at certain times into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.

6When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to be made well?”

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Cross References

Mark 9:21He asked his father, “How long has it been since this has been happening to him?” He said, “From childhood.

Luke 13:16Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”

John 9:1As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

Acts 3:2A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

Acts 9:33There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years because he was paralyzed.

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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