American Standard Version
John 5:5
5And a certain man was there, who had been thirty and eight years in his infirmity.
John 5:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
- New International Version (NIV)One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
- English Standard Version (ESV)One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.
Context of John 5:5
3In these lay a multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt, withered. And a certain man was there, who had been thirty and eight years in his infirmity. 6When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wouldest thou be made whole? 7The sick man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
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Ἦν δέ τις ἄνθρωπος ἐκεῖ τριάκοντα καὶ ὀκτὼ ἔτη ἔχων ἐν τῇ ἀσθενείᾳ αὐτοῦ.Read the interlinear
Cross-references for John 5:5
- John 5:14Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing befall thee.
- John 9:1And as he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth.
- Mark 9:21And he asked his father, How long time is it since this hath come unto him? And he said, From a child.
- Luke 8:43And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, who had spent all her living upon physicians, and could not be healed of any,
- Luke 13:16And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound, lo, these eighteen years, to have been loosed from this bond on the day of the sabbath?
- Acts 3:2And a certain man that was lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
- Acts 4:22For the man was more than forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was wrought.
- Acts 9:33And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had kept his bed eight years; for he was palsied.
- Acts 14:8And at Lystra there sat a certain man, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.
Commentaries on John 5:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Had 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 was a palsy: his case was deplorable - he was not able to go into the pool himself, and he had no one to help him; so that poverty and disease were here connected. The length of the time he had been afflicted makes the miracle of his cure the greater. There could have been no…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5An 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.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5No organized care system existed to help this man. He had been sick for 38 years. He likely could not keep himself clean. He probably could not move easily on his own. Most likely, he depended on begging from people who came to the pool (see 5:7). From a human point of view, his situation seemed hopeless.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-95-9. thirty and eight years--but not all that time at the pool. This was probably the most pitiable of all the cases, and therefore selected.Read the comment
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Commentaries on John 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Catena Aurea
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- John Lightfoot Commentary
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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