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Inἐνtheseταύταιςlayκατέκειτοa multitudeπλῆθοςof the sick:τῶν ἀσθενούντωνblind,τυφλῶνlame,χωλῶνwithered.ξηρῶν
John 5:3
Study it in the app“In these lay a multitude of the sick: blind, lame, withered.”
With the Greek beneath
John 5:3, word by word
- layκατέκειτοkatekeito
lie
To be laid up, like a sick person in bed.
Where else “katekeito” appears- a multitudeπλῆθοςplēthos
crowd
Many persons gathered.
Where else “plēthos” appears- of the sickἀσθενούντωνasthenountōn
be sick
To be unwell in body, without health, sometimes to the point of death.
Where else “asthenountōn” appears- blindτυφλῶνtyphlōn
blind
Someone who cannot see.
Where else “typhlōn” appears- lameχωλῶνchōlōn
lame
Lame.
Where else “chōlōn” appears- witheredξηρῶνxērōn
withered
Sapless, like a tree; a "shriveled hand": without strength or life.
Where else “xērōn” appears
Translation note· on the manuscripts
Some later manuscripts add at the end: “waiting for the moving of the water.” It is not in the oldest manuscripts nor in the Greek text we follow.
The context
2Now in Jerusalem, by the Sheep Gate, there is a pool, the one called in Hebrew Bethesda, which has five colonnades.
3 · This verse (above)
4For an angel of the Lord went down from time to time into the pool and stirred up the water; and whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made well of whatever disease he had.
To study John 5 in a group
1. What it says
What does Jesus ask the man who had been ill for thirty-eight years, and what does he tell him to do? What problem do the Jews see? (vv. 5-16)
2. What it means
Jesus says the works he does bear witness about him (v. 36). What other witnesses does he mention in this chapter? (vv. 31-47)
3. How I live it
Jesus asked the sick man, “Do you want to get well?” (v. 6). What change would you like to ask God for in your life today?