The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath

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John 5:1–18 ESV

After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.” But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’ ” They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.” The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.” This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

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John’s letter focuses on Jesus’ authority

Evidence of His Sonship

And Jesus’ clear claim to be the Son of God

John 5:1 ESV

After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Approx 28AD

Possibly after Passover, Pentecost (Feast of harvest/blessings, May), or Feast of Tabernacles (Oct)

John 5:2 ESV

Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades.

Gate which the sacrificial lambs entered the city

Pool called Bethesda “House of Mercy”

John 5:3–4 ESV

In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.

Blind, Lame & Paralysed

The New King James Version Chapter 5

John 5:4

This note does not appear in all manuscripts but provides explanation of the points featured in v7

John 5:5 ESV

One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

He has been disabled for 38 years

John 5:6 ESV

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”

Jesus knew he had suffered for a long time

“Do you want to be healed?”

This man had possibly lost hope of being healed

Jesus draws out his testamony

John 5:7 ESV

The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.”

“Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stireed up, and while I am going another steps down before me”

He highlights his need and the inability to help himself

John 5:8 ESV

Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.”

“Get up, take up your bed, and walk.”

John 5:9 ESV

And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath.

At once he was healed and he took up his bed and walked

It was the Sabbath

John 5:10–12 ESV

So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.” But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’ ” They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?”

“Not lawful for you to take up your bed”

Pharasees viewed that man was made for the Sabbath

Extreme view of what constituted as work

God established the Sabbath for man

John 5:13 ESV

Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.

He went to point out Jesus’ but he had disappeared into the crowd

John 5:14 ESV

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.”

“See, you are well!”

“Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you”

John 5:15–16 ESV

The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

The man told the group who were probably a mix of Pharasee’s, Priests and Scribes.

The men were probably then speaking amongst themselves

John 5:17 ESV

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

Jesus goes and speaks to them, knowing their hearts

Jesus reminds them that God never stops working

He affirms his Sonship

He acknowledges His Work is as continuious as His Father

John 5:18 ESV

This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

They were furious with him breaking the Sabbath

But they wanted all the more to kill him, because he claimed to be equal with God

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