Kids- Jn. 5 12/12/2018
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Q: How was your week?
Q: Anything new happen?
Q: Prayer Requests?
Pray
Review
Q: What did we discuss last time?
A: The Samarian woman.
Q: What was special about that story?
A: The woman was a Samarian and an adulterer yet Jesus spoke to her and many believed because of her faith.
Introduction
So we pick up the story with Jesus’ second miracle. What was Jesus’ first recorded miracle? Turning water into wine. His second miracle will be a healing. So let us read now.
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.
English Standard Version Chapter 5
5 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. 5 One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 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?” 7 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.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” 9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.
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After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
5 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. 5 One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 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?” 7 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.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” 9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.
Q: So what has happened in this story?
There is a feast of the Jews.
This is the Passover Feast
Jesus wet to observe the Passover feast.
This is because He is a Jew and observing the Passover Feast is part of obeying the OT Law.
All the lame were laying around waiting to enter the pool.
Why? Because it was thought at the time that when the pool of water began to swirl, it would heal the first one to enter it.
Jesus comes across a man who has been paralyzed for 38 years.
Being paralyzed today is a serious disability. It makes it difficult or even impossible to drive, work, walk, bathe, along with other things. But it was exponentially more difficult back then. There were not wheelchairs or ramps, or social services, or aid. If you were paralyzed and your family did not want to care for you, you would be left to either beg for the rest of your life or die.
Jesus asks’ him a strange question, “do you want to be healed?”
Q: Why would Jesus ask such a question? It seems obvious the man wishes to be healed. But maybe that was not the case. It was just as likely then as it is now that some who were ill continued in their illness for sympathy or to avoid the hard labor of the lower social class.
Why? Because it was thought at the time that when the pool of water began to swirl, it would heal the first one to enter it.
The man has a problem.
He has no one to put him in the pool of water. It is a free-for-all.
Q: Then what does Jesus say?
English Standard Version Chapter 5
“Get up, take up your bed, and walk.”
8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.”
Q: And what happens?
English Standard Version Chapter 5
9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.
9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.
The man was immediately healed.
This should be the end of the story, right? But no. The Pharisees get involved. Let us now read.
English Standard Version Chapter 5
Now that day was the Sabbath. 10 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.” 11 But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’ ” 12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” 13 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. 14 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.” 15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. 16 And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”
John 5:9b-17
Now that day was the Sabbath. 10 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.” 11 But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’” 12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” 13 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. 14 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.” 15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. 16 And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”
Q: So what is the problem?
A: The Pharisees say people should not carry their beds on the Sabbath.
Q: Why?
Q: And what is important about the Sabbath?
A: Because the OT Law said not carry things on the Sabbath on punishment of death.
The Sabbath
3 “Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the LORD in all your dwelling places.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.
English Standard Version Chapter 17
21 Thus says the LORD: Take care for the sake of your lives, and do not bear a burden on the Sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem. 22 And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.
You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
14 You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
14 You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Q: So did Jesus and this man break the OT Law?
A: No. Because Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath. If He has the authority to heal, He also has the authority to give exemptions.
The Pharisees were right to be zealous about the Sabbath. It is God’s Law. It carries severe consequences for the law-breaker and possibly for the Israelites. But in their zealousness for the Law they overlook the miracle performed by the giver of the Law.
Q: What does Jesus say to the healed man when Jesus finds him in the temple?
A: v.14 “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.”
Q: What
Q: Why did Jesus say this to him?
A: It may have been because of his sin he was that way. Or Jesus is exhorting him to remember his healing and not use it for sinful purposes lest he be cast into hell.
Now the Pharisees learn from the healed man that Jesus was the one who healed him. The Pharisees approach and begin attacking Jesus for commanding this man to carry his bed on the Sabbath. So Jesus responds with this...
17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”
Q: What is the importance of this dialog?
A: The next verse explains.
18 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.
In the statement Jesus made, He is claiming not only authority over the Sabbath but also saying He has the same divinity as God the Father.
So Jesus nor the man were breaking the OT Law on the Sabbath. But the Pharisees were not gonna have it. So instead of being amazed that this man was cured, they plot to find out who did the miracle in order to punish, not praise.
The Pharisees were so blinded by their strict adherence to the OT Law that they had forgotten the purpose and meaning of the Law. So much so that when the author of the OT Law was among them they did not recognize Him but rather hated Him.
So the Pharisees go look for Jesus but He has hidden Himself. And while hiding Jesus finds the man He had healed and tells him something qui
Application
English Standard Version Chapter 5
14 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.”
English Standard Version Chapter 5
14 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.”
We ought to be quite careful when we read and study the Scriptures, that we do not commit the same error the Pharisees did.
We need not only know the Scriptures but also the God of the Scriptures.
Q: Do you know Him? Do you believe in Him? Do you speak to Him?
You can if you turn away from your sin and believe in Him as the only Son of God.
When Jesus restores us like He did the paralyzed man, we should not use the opportunity to sin more.
If you are a Christian, Jesus has freed you from your sin. We are not to use our freedom to return to sin but rather live as slaves for Jesus Christ.
But also, if we decided to return to sin, there may be more severe consequences for that decisions because God as a good Father corrects His children.