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Do you want to be healed?

John 5:1–9 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.

John The Healing on the Sabbath (5:1–9a)

An unnamed “feast of the Jews”

This was before the Passover,

John’s Gospel clearly lays out Jesus’s ministry covered three years, by clearly listing them.

Chapter 12 is the passover in this year

John The Healing on the Sabbath (5:1–9a)

The pool, which has been excavated, had five colonnaded porches

It was believed the five porches symbolized the five books of Moses.

On the face value this is unimportant to us. But this spoke to the Jews who always were looking at signs or symbols.

This man was looking to the past for the answer to his problem.

He was looking at the tool and not the source.