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Verse John 5:5. _HAD AN INFIRMITY THIRTY AND EIGHT YEARS._] St.
Chrysostom conjectured that _blindness_ was the infirmity of this
person: what it was, the inspired writer does not say - probably it
w...
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AN INFIRMITY - A weakness. We know not what his disease was. We know
only that it disabled him from walking, and that it was of very long
standing. It was doubtless regarded as incurable....
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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...
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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...
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AND. CERTAIN MAN WAS THERE, WHICH HAD AN INFIRMITY THIRTY AND EIGHT
YEARS.
In the porches around this pool. great number of afflicted persons
were gathered on account of. belief that the waters had....
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MAN'S HELPLESSNESS AND CHRIST'S POWER (John 5:1-9)...
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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...
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AND, &c. See App-176.
MAN. Greek _anthropos._ App-123.
THIRTY AND EIGHT YEARS. The period of the wanderings. Compare "from
birth", John 9:1....
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_which had an infirmity_, &c. Literally, _who had passed thirty-eight
years in his infirmity_. Not that he was 38 years old; evidently he
was more; but he had had this malady 38 years....
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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...
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5. Insert ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂ (overlooked between -ᾳ and του-) after
ἀσθενείᾳ.
5. ἜΤΗ. Accusative after ἔχων, like χρόνον in John 5:6;
_having_ (_passed_) _thirty-eight years in his infirmity_. Not that he
was 38...
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THE SIGN AT THE POOL OF BETHESDA...
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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...
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_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...
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ΆΣΘΕΝΕΊΙ (G769) _dat. sing._ слабость, болезнь.
Судя по ст. 7, болезнь мешала ему
подобраться к воде самостоятельно.
Ничего более конкретного о болезни из
текста узнать нельзя....
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AND A CERTAIN MAN WAS THERE,— Among the crowds who lay in the
porticos of Bethesda, there was one, who had _an infirmity,_—
ασθενεια,— most probably a paralytic disorder, which hardly
ever gives way t...
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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...
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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...
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And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight
years.
AND [OR RATHER, 'NOW' de (G1161 )] A CERTAIN MAN WAS THERE, WHICH HAD
AN INFIRMITY THIRTY AND EIGHT YEARS - a length of t...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THIRTY AND EIGHT YEARS. — The period expresses, not his age on the
one hand, nor the time of his being at Bethesda on the other, but the
time during which he had suffered from the infirmity. Helpless...
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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...
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ἦν δέ τις ἄνθρωπος … ἀσθενείᾳ. “And
there was a certain man there who had spent thirty-eight years in his
infirmity:” ἔτη ἔχων, _cf._ John 5:6 and John 8:57; and
Achil. Tat., 24. How long he had lain...
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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...
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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...
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_Infirmity. The Greek, astheneia, signifies in its radical
interpretation, a loss of strength: in this place it seems to denote a
confirmed palsy._...
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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.”...
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“ _There was a man there_, _held by his sickness for thirty-eight
years._ 6. _When Jesus saw him lying_, _and knew that he had been
already sick for a long time, he said unto him: Dost thou wish to be...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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5._And there was a man there. _The Evangelist collects various
circumstances, which prove that the miracle may be relied on as
certain. The long duration of the disease had taken away all hope of
its...
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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...
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AND A CERTAIN MAN WAS THERE,.... At Bethesda's pool, in one of the
five porches, or cloisters, that belonged to it:
WHICH HAD AN INFIRMITY THIRTY AND EIGHT YEARS; what his infirmity was,
is not said;...
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And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight
years.
Ver. 5. _Thirty and eight years_] A long while to be in misery: but
what is this to eternity of extremity! We need have som...
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_A certain man was there_ Among the crowds which now lay in the
porticoes of Bethesda, was one who _had an infirmity_ A weakness, as
the word ασθενεια means; _thirty and eight years_ He had
probably l...
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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...
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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...
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What this man's name was, or what his circumstances in the world, or
what his particular disease, we are not told; nor is it said that he
had lain there thirty-eight years, but that he had so long lab...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II
But they cannot maintain this; otherwise their primary and original
Ogdoad will be included in the number of Aeons who suffered together.
Moreover, there was also a...
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John 5:5 Now G1161 certain G5100 man G444 was G2258 (G5713) there
G1563 had G2192 (G5723) infirmity...
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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...
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‘And a certain man was there who had been an invalid for thirty
eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had now
been like that a long time, he says to him, “Do you want to be mad...
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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...
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John 5:5. AND A CERTAIN MAN WAS THERE, WHICH HAD BEEN THIRTY AND EIGHT
YEARS IN HIS SICKNESS. This sufferer (apparently one of the
‘withered,' though not altogether destitute of the power of motion)
h...
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WHICH HAD BEEN THIRTY AND EIGHT YEARS
(τριακοντα κα οκτω ετη εχων). Literally, "having
thirty and eight years," "having spent thirty and eight years....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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A MAN WAS THERE. He probably was paralyzed, and had been for
thirty-eight years!...
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_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...
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JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:5 He had been an INVALID for THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS,
longer than many people lived at that time.
⇐...
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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....
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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...
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_A man having an infirmity_ : Greek and Vulgate. S. Chrysostom and
others say that this sick man was a paralytic.
Tropologically, this infirm man represents one who has grown old in a
course of sin: w...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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Acts 14:8; Acts 3:2; Acts 4:22; Acts 9:33; John 5:14;...
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Had an infirmity thirty and eight years. Literally, having thirty and
eight years in his infirmity....
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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...
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It was very commendable that the rich men did not engross this pool,
and the benefit of it, to themselves, but suffered poor people to come
to it. In this college of cripples,. poor man, that had been...