08-10-2020 Monday Morning with Matt - 38 Years...
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1 Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days.
2 Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches.
3 Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches.
5 One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?”
7 “I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets there ahead of me.”
8 Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!”
9 Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking! But this miracle happened on the Sabbath,
38 Years in Waiting...
38 Years in Waiting...
14 And the time we took to come from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, just as the Lord had sworn to them.
Pool of Bethesda/Bethsaida (bet hesd = house of mercy or house of love for those in need)
Place where the infirm, the blind, the lame and paralyzed - marginalized in their society due to their illness...
Preparation for the Miracle: “[Jesus] said to him, “Do you ant to be be made well?”
Problem: “Sir, I have NO ONE to put me into the pool...” - No Direct and Personal Care...
The POWER: “Jesus said to him, Rise, take up your bed and walk.” And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked.