John 5:5

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 a crowd of invalids was lying around—blind, lame, disabled. Now a certain man had been an invalid there for thirty-eight years. 6Seeing him lying there and knowing he had been that way a long time, Yeshua said to him, “Do you want to get well?” 7The invalid answered Him, “Sir, I have nobody to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I’m trying to get in, somebody else steps down before me!”

John 5:5 word by word

Ἦν δέ τις ἄνθρωπος ἐκεῖ τριάκοντα καὶ ὀκτὼ ἔτη ἔχων ἐν τῇ ἀσθενείᾳ αὐτοῦ.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Andδέde · thenG1161
• a certainτιςtis · oneG5100
• manἄνθρωποςanthrōpos · a humanG444
• wasεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• thereἐκεῖekei · thereG1563
• which hadἔχωechō · to have/beG2192
• ·ἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• an infirmityὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• an infirmityἀσθένειαastheneia · weakness: illG769
• thirtyτριάκονταtriakonta · thirtyG5144
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• eightὀκτώoktō · eightG3638
• yearsἔτοςetos · yearG2094

Cross-references for John 5:5

• John 5:14Afterwards, Yeshua finds him in the Temple. He said to him, “Look, you’ve been healed! Stop sinning, so nothing worse happens to you.”
• John 9:1As Yeshua was passing by, He saw a man who had been blind since birth.
• Mark 9:21Yeshua asked the father, “How long has this been happening to him?” “Since he was a child,” the man answered.
• Luke 8:43And there was a woman with a blood flow for twelve years, who could not be healed by anyone.
• Luke 13:16So this one, a daughter of Abraham incapacitated by satan for eighteen years, shouldn’t she be set free from this imprisonment on Yom Shabbat?”
• Acts 3:2A man lame from birth was being carried—every day they used to put him at the Temple gate called Beautiful, so he could beg for tzadakah from those entering the Temple.
• Acts 4:22For the man in whom this miracle of healing had happened was more than forty years old.
• Acts 9:33There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years—he was paralyzed.
• Acts 14:8Now a man was sitting in Lystra without strength in his feet, lame from birth, 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

Topics related to John 5:5

• Jesus, the Christ
• Miracles
• Sabbath

In the dictionaries

• Folk
• Judgment
• Lest
• Light
• Palsy
• Step
• Trouble
• Troubling
• Witness
• Bath; Bathing

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