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John 5:1-15

The Healing at the Pool

[1] Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. [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. [3] Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. [4] [5] One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. [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. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

[8] Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” [9] At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, [10] and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”

[11] But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

[12] So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”

[13] The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

[14] Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” [15] The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

Notes Outline

1. The First Encounter - The Healer

   1. John 5:1-2

   2. John 5:3-4 (disputed)

   3. John 5:5-8

2. The Second Encounter - The Legalist

   1. John 5:9-13

   2. Exodus 20:8

   3. Matthew 22:37-40

3. The Third Encounter - The Savior

   1. John 5:14-15

   2. Matthew 3:13-15