CONTENTS Jesus visits the pool of Bethesda. He healeth one there, after thirty and eight years disease. He preacheth most blessedly to the Jews. (John 5:1) After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. I beg the Reader at this verse to remark with me, that John is the o... [ Continue Reading ]
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... [ Continue Reading ]
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole. (16) And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath-day. (17) But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. (18) Therefore the Jews... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS Blessed Mediator! do thou still continue by thy Holy Spirit, to visit the Bethesdas of Ordinances, among thy people; and as in the instance of this poor man, the longest and most inveterate diseases, induced by the Adam-nature of out fallen state, will be done away, when Jesus speaks th... [ Continue Reading ]