John 5:1

After these things, was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up unto Jerusalem.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Now there is in Jerusalem, at the Sheep-gate, a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethzatha,—having, five porches.

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Cross References

Exodus 34:23three times in the year, shall every one of thy males see the face of the Lord Yahweh the God of Israel.

Deuteronomy 16:16Three times in the year, shall each one of thy males see the face of Yahweh thy God, in the place which he shall choose, at the festival of unleavened cakes and at the festival of weeks and at the festival of booths,—and none shall see the face of Yahweh empty-handed:

John 2:13And, near, was the passover of the Jews; and, Jesus, went up unto 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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