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John 5:5
5But there was a certain man there who had been suffering under his infirmity thirty and eight years.
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 sick, blind, lame, withered, [awaiting the moving of the water. 4For an angel descended at a certain season in the pool and troubled the water. Whoever therefore first went in after the troubling of the water became well, whatever disease he laboured under.] But there was a certain man there who had been suffering under his infirmity thirty and eight years. 6Jesus seeing this [man] lying [there], and knowing that he was [in that state] now a great length of time, says to him, Wouldest thou become well? 7The infirm [man] answered him, Sir, I have not a man, in order, when the water has been troubled, to cast me into the pool; but while I am coming another descends 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 5:14After these things Jesus finds him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, thou art become well: sin no more, that something worse do not happen to thee.
- John 9:1And as he passed on, he saw a man blind from birth.
- Mark 9:21And he asked his father, How long a time is it that it has been like this with him? And he said, From childhood;
- Luke 8:43And a woman who had a flux of blood since twelve years, who, having spent all her living on physicians, could not be cured by any one,
- Luke 13:16And this [woman], who is a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, lo, [these] eighteen years, ought she not to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
- Acts 3:2and a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they placed every day at the gate of the temple called Beautiful, to ask alms of those who were going into the temple;
- Acts 4:22for the man on whom this sign of healing had taken place was above forty years old.
- Acts 9:33And he found there a certain man, Aeneas by name, who had been lying for eight years upon a couch, who was paralysed.
- Acts 14:8And a certain man in Lystra, impotent in his feet, sat, [being] lame from his mother's womb, who had never 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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