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John 5:3
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
JOHN 5:3 xhrw/n {A} Because the man whom Jesus heals appears to have been a paralytic (a word that occurs nowhere in John), after xhrw/n the Western text (D ita, b, d, j, l, r1 geo2) inserts paraluti...
Verse John 5:3. _BLIND, HALT, WITHERED_] To these the _Codex Bezae_, three copies of the _Itala_, and both the _Persic_, add παραλυτικων, _paralytic_; but they are probably included among the withered...
IMPOTENT FOLK - Sick people; or people who were weak and feeble by long disease. The word means those who were “feeble” rather than those who were afflicted with “acute” disease. HALT - Lame. WITHERE...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The Healing of the Impotent Man. (John 5:1 .)_ 2. The Opposition of the Jews. (John 5:10 .) 3. His Unity with the Father. (John 5:19 .) 4. The Present Hour. Believers Delivered from...
JOHN 5:1_ A_. THE POOL OF BETHZATHA. If in John 5:1 we read the feast, Tabernacles is probably meant (_cf. John 7:2)._ The true text, however, seems to have a feast. Pentecost, Purim (in March, to sui...
IN THESE LAY. GREAT MULTITUDE. All that follows "waiting" to the beginning of the 5th verse is wanting in the ancient manuscripts and is an interpolation. The efficacy of the pool might have been due...
MAN'S HELPLESSNESS AND CHRIST'S POWER (John 5:1-9)...
After this there was a Feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In Jerusalem, near the sheepgate, there is a bathing-pool with five porches, which was called in Hebrew, Bethzatha. In these p...
IN. Greek. _en._ App-104. HALT. lame. Eng. from Anglo-Saxon _healt. stop,_ be-cause of having to stop frequently from lameness. WAITING. From this word to the end of John 5:4 is omitted by. Tr.. WH R...
_lay a great multitude_ Better, WERE LYING A MULTITUDE. _blind, halt, withered_ These are the special kinds of -impotent folk." _waiting for the moving of the water_ These words and the whole of John...
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
3. Omit ἐκδεχομένων τὴν τοῦ ὕδατος κίνησιν after ΞΗΡΩ͂Ν, with אA1BC1L against D and the great mass of later authorities; a gloss suggested by John 5:7, and added before John 5:4. 3. ΤΥΦΛ., Χ., Ξ. The...
THE SIGN AT THE POOL OF BETHESDA...
Ver 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 por...
_THE LAME MAN HEALED AT THE POOL -- JOHN 5:1-13:_ We read, 'After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is cal...
ΚΑΤΈΚΕΙΤΟ _impf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΚΑΤΑΚΕΊΟΜΑΙ (G2621) лежать; обыденный _impf._, "множество народа имело обыкновение лежать" ΆΣΘΕΝΟΎΝΤΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΆΣΘΕΝΈΩ (G770) быть слабым, болеть....
A HELPLESS MAN HEALED _Text 5:1-9_ 1 After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Heb...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 5:1-15 We begin with the usual Analysis:— "After this there was a feast of the Jews" (John 5:1). "After this" or, as it should be. "After these things," is an e...
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. IN THESE LAY A GREAT MULTITUDE OF IMPOTENT FOLK (OR INFIRM PEOPLE) OF BLIND HALT WITH...
46 The first sign, at Calla, signifies the blessing of Israel in the kingdom. This, the second sign, is also at Calla, hence is also concerned with the coming kingdom. The wine prefigured the joy of t...
BETHESDA. CHRIST AND THE SABBATH 1-47. A miracle at the Pool of Bethesda on the Sabbath Day, and a controversy arising therefrom. This miracle may be regarded as a parable illustrating the deadly effe...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 5 JESUS CURES A SICK MAN 5:1-15 V1 After this, Jesus went to *Jerusalem for another *Jewish *festival. V2 There was a p...
IN THESE LAY A GREAT MULTITUDE. — The word “great” before multitude, and the latter clause of the verse “waiting for the moving of the water,” and the whole of John 5:4, is omitted by most of the olde...
CHAPTER 12 SABBATH CURE AT BETHESDA. “After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew B...
ἐκδεχομένων … νοσήματι. See critical note....
WEAKNESS MADE STRENGTH John 5:1-9 An interval of some months lies between the previous chapter and this, in which many of the incidents of our Lord's Galilean life took place. John does not touch on...
It was at this time that the conflict between Christ and His enemies, which culminated in His Cross began. A miracle wrought on the Sabbath gave rise to this first outbreak. Throughout this chapter we...
CHAPTER 13 THE POOL OF BETHESDA John 5:1-47. _“After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.”_ You always find the phraseology in the Bible, _“Go up to Jerusalem.”...
“ _In these porches lay a great number of sick persons, blind, lame, withered_, [_waiting for the movement of the water._ 4. _For an angel descended from time to time into the pool and troubled the wa...
SECOND PART: THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNBELIEF IN ISRAEL. 5:1- 12:50. UP to this point, decided faith and unbelief have been only exceptional phenomena; the masses have remained in a state of passive indiff...
FIRST SECTION: 5:1-47. FIRST OUTBREAK OF HATRED IN JUDEA. 1. The miracle, occasion of the conflict: John 5:1-16; John 2. The discourse of Jesus, commentary and defense of the miracle: John 5:17-47....
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, withere...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
3._In these lay a great multitude. _It is possible that diseased persons lay in the porches to ask alms when the people were passing there who were going into the temple to worship; and there, too, it...
chapter 5 contrasts the quickening power of Christ, the power and the right of giving life to the dead, with the powerlessness of legal ordinances. They required strength in the person that was to pro...
IN THESE LAY A GREAT MULTITUDE OF IMPOTENT FOLK,.... Sick and weak persons; who were an emblem of men under the law of works, and in a state of unregeneracy; who are enfeebled by sin, and are impotent...
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. Ver. 3. _Of impotent folk_] That had tried all other ways, and could not otherwise be c...
_Now there is at Jerusalem_ The Syriac seems to have read, ην, _there was_, as it is rendered in that version in the past time. Cyril, Chrysostom, and Theophylact favour this reading, as also does Non...
AGAIN IN JERUSALEM: THE POOL OF BETHESDA (vs.1-15) Once more we find the Lord Jesus visiting Jerusalem, and as in Chapter 2:13 the feast is called "the Jews' Passover" rather than the Passover of Jeh...
1-9 We are all by nature impotent folk in spiritual things, blind, halt, and withered; but full provision is made for our cure, if we attend to it. An angel went down, and troubled the water; and wha...
In these apartments (called here porches) there were a great number of sick persons, some labouring under one infirmity, some under another, some blind, some lame, waiting for the time the water shoul...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III For the love meant is the love of God. "And this is the love of God," says John, "that we keep His commandments; "[157] Clement of Alexandria Stromata B...
John 5:3 In G1722 these G5025 lay G2621 (G5711) great G4183 multitude G4128 people G770 (G5723) blind...
THE HEALING OF THE DISABLED MAN AT THE POOL (JOHN 5:1). When John recounts an incident in the life of Jesus we must always ask what it is intended to illustrate, for he always has a purpose in mind. H...
‘In these lay a great crowd of those who were sick, blind, lame and withered.' Many people with all kinds of disablement would lie round the pool because the belief was that when there was a stirring...
John 5:3. IN THESE LAY A MULTITUDE OF SICK FOLK, OF BLIND, HALT, WITHERED. Under the shelter of these porticos many such were laid day after day. The general term ‘sick folk' receives its explanation...
With the beginning of this chapter we enter upon the fourth and leading division of the Gospel, extending to the close of chap. 12. Its object is to set Jesus forth in the height of His conflict with...
IN THESE (εν ταυταις). In these five porches.LAY (κατεκειτο). Imperfect middle of κατακειμα, to lie down, singular number because πληθος (multitude) is a collective substantive.WITHERED (ξηρων)....
WAITING FOR The Sinai manuscript omits "waiting for the moving of the water." and all of (John 5:4)....
John 5:2 Scripture a Record of Human Sorrow I. There lay about the Pool of Bethesda a great multitude of impotent folk of blind, halt, and withered. This is a painful picture, such as we do not like...
John 5:1. After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five por...
John 5:1. _After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem._ For he had respect to the Law. As long as the Law lasted, Christ observed it. Oh, that we were as careful to obey...
CONTENTS: Healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda. Jesus answers the Jews. The four-fold witness to Jesus. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, infirm man, John the Baptist, Moses. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ, th...
John 5:2. _Now there is at Jerusalem a pool, called Bethesda,_ which signifies a house of mercy, beneficence, or alms. The pool was situate at too great a distance from the temple to be a place for wa...
A LARGE CROWD OF SICK PEOPLE. Hoping for a miracle. The part in brackets [1] is omitted in most ancient manuscripts, but is found in the Latin Vulgate and was known in the second century. John 5:7 see...
_After this there was a feast of the Jews_ THE POOL OF BETHESDA, A TYPE OF FAVOURED LOCALITIES IN A RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY IN WHICH THE HIGHEST MIRACULOUS AID HAS NOT YET APPEARED The miraculous aid is...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:3 See esv footnote. The material about an angel of the Lord stirring the water and bringing healing appears in some early manuscripts, but not the earliest. Thus v. 4 should not be...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:1 Chapters John 5:1 tell of escalating conflict between Jesus and the Jewish authorities. As Jesus defends his ministry, he cites several major witnesses on his behalf....
1-47 CHAPTER 5 _After these things,_ &c. Observe, John here omits many things which Christ did in Galilee, but which Matthew records from the 4th to the 12th chapter of his Gospel. For what Matthew...
_In them... languishing people_ (Vulg.); Greek, _α̉σθενόντων_; Eng. Ver. _sick folk_; _withered_ (Vulg.) _aridorum, dry, i.e._, whose arm, or hand, or foot, or some other limb, was lifeless. _An ange...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ “Up to the present time our Lord has offered Himself to typical representatives of the whole Jewish race at Jerusalem, in Judæa, in Samaria, and in Galilee, in such a...
EXPOSITION Here commences the second division of the Gospel (John 5:1) II. THE CONFLICT WITH THE CHOSEN PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM, GALILEE, AND JERUSALEM, TO THE
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the fifth chapter of the gospel of John. John has just recorded in the fourth chapter the ministry of Jesus in the Galilee when He was at the city of Cana and the noblem...
1 Kings 13:4; James 5:7; Lamentations 3:26; Luke 7:22; Mark 3:1;...
Great multitude. The best texts omit great. Impotent [α σ θ ε ς ο υ ν τ ω ν]. Rev., sick. Yet the A. V. gives the literal meaning, people without strength. Wyc., languishing. Withered [ζ η ρ ω ν]. L...
THE MAN MADE WHOLE John 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Every footstep of the Lord Jesus Christ was one of mercy and of grace. The beautiful thing about Christ's healing and helping hand is, that He made no...