This man has apparently been disabled for 38 years, being brought to the pool, hoping to be healed. 4 of the King James Version: “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 whatsoever disease he had.” There was a legend in those days, which you read in v. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me." 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?" 7 "Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. 4 5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie- the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. John 5:1-18 - Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. This Sunday, we will be in John 5, looking at the interaction between Jesus and a disabled man. This summer, I have been preaching through a sermon series that I have entitled “Meeting Jesus,” where I am looking through the gospel of John at the interactions of various people with Jesus, in order to discover who Jesus is and what it means to know and follow Him.
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