John 5:1-9

The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath

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

2 Now there is in Jerusalem by p the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic 1 called Bethesda, 2 which has five roofed colonnades. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalids - blind, lame, and q paralyzed. 3 5 One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?" 7 The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me." 8 Jesus said to him, r "Get up, take up your bed, and walk."

9 r And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. s Now that day was the Sabbath.

  1. Cross References
    John 6:4
    Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.
  2. Cross References
    Nehemiah 3:1
    Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors. They consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hananel.
    Nehemiah 3:32
    And between the upper chamber of the corner and the Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and the merchants repaired.
    Nehemiah 12:39
    And above the Gate of Ephraim, and by the Gate of Yeshanah, and by the Fish Gate and the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate; and they came to a halt at the Gate of the Guard.
  3. Cross References
    Matthew 12:10
    And a man was there with a withered hand. And they asked him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" - so that they might accuse him.
  4. Cross References
    Matthew 9:6 - 7
    But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" - he then said to the paralytic - "Rise, pick up your bed and go home.
    Mark 2:9
    Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise, take up your bed and walk'?
    Mark 2:11 - 12
    "I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home."
    Luke 5:24 - 25
    But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" - he said to the man who was paralyzed - "I say to you, rise, pick up your bed and go home.
  5. Cross References
    John 5:8
    Jesus said to him, "Get up, take up your bed, and walk.
  6. Cross References
    John 9:14
    Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.
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