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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
After this there was a feast of the Jews,.... After Christ had been in Samaria, which was four months ago, John 4:35, and had been in Galilee for that time, and had cured the nobleman's son, and had done other mighty works, the time came on for one of the three festivals of the Jews; either the feast of Pentecost, as some think; or as others, the...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
We have in the gospels a faithful record of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, Acts i. 1. These two are interwoven, because what he taught explained what he did, and what he did confirmed what he taught. Accordingly, we have in this chapter a miracle and a sermon. I. The miracle was the cure of an impotent man that had been diseased...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. For he had respect to the Law. As long as the Law lasted, Christ observed it. Oh, that we were as careful to obey the rules of the Gospel as our Lord was to observe the ritual of the Law! Moreover, he went to Jerusalem because he had an opportunity of addressing great...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep [market],.... The word "market" is not in the text, and of such a market, no account is given in the Scripture, nor in the Jewish writings; and besides, in our Lord's time, sheep and oxen were sold in the temple; rather therefore this signifies, the sheep gate, of which mention is made, in Ne 3:1, through...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. This pool of Bethesda was rightly called “the house of mercy”; but it might have just as truly named “the house of misery”: for its “five porches” were the abode of many who were in misery, and who needed mercy.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk,.... Sick and weak persons; who were an emblem of men under the law of works, and in a state of unregeneracy; who are enfeebled by sin, and are impotent and unable to do anything of themselves; as to keep the law of God, to which they have neither will nor power, and to atone for the transgressions...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, Invalid persons, diseased, and scarcely able to move. Joh_5:3. Of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. What a sight for the Great Physician to look upon! The whole world must have been to him like one huge hospital, full of “impotent folk, blind, halt withered.” Wherever he...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool,.... This angel is not to be understood of a messenger sent from the sanhedrim, or by the priests, as Dr. Hammond thinks; who has a strange conceit, that this pool was used for the washing of the entrails of the sacrifices; and which at the passover being very numerous, the water in it mixed...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. It was the last remnant of miracle. Such things were common enough in Judaea in her better days; but now the times of the prophets had ceased, and the day of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And a certain man was there,.... At Bethesda's pool, in one of the five porches, or cloisters, that belonged to it: which had an infirmity thirty and eight years; what his infirmity was, is not said; he was one of the weak, or impotent folk, for so he is called, John 5:7. Some think his distemper was the palsy, and though he had had this infirmity...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. That was a great portion of the man’s life. If he was a full-grown man when he was attacked with the infirmity, he had now become old and gray. What a long time to be afflicted, thirty and eight years! Have we not with us at this time some who have been afflicted with the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When Jesus saw him lie,.... In such a helpless condition: and knew that he had been now a long time, [in that case], or "in his disease", as the Ethiopic version supplies; even seven years before Christ was born; which is a proof of his omniscience: the words may be literally rendered, as they are in the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions, "that he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When Jesus saw him lie. The Great Physician fixed his eye on him, for his was an extraordinary case. Probably he was known and talked of as the man who had been paralyzed eight and thirty years. Note that it does not say, “When the man saw Jesus,” but “when Jesus saw him.” He did not know Jesus; possibly he had not even heard of his healing power...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The impotent man answered him, Sir,.... Which was a common and courteous way of speaking, much in use with the Jews, especially to strangers. The Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions read, "yea Lord", which is a direct answer to the question: I have no man; the Ethiopic version reads, "men"; he had no servant, so Nonnus, or servants, to wait upon...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, Shuffling along, as best I may, to the water’s edge, — Joh_5:7. Another steppeth down before me. Then, of course, the curative miracle is wrought, and the curative power of the water is gone until another season, when the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Jesus saith to him, rise,.... From thy bed, or couch, on which he lay in one of the porches: and take up thy bed and walk; these words were spoken by the same power, as those to Lazarus, which called him out of his grave; as appears from the effect they had upon the man, who was in himself impotent, weak, and helpless.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath. This is our Sabbath. Oh, that we might have the same miracle wrought here tonight, upon many spiritually impotent folk!
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And immediately the man was made whole,.... As soon as ever the words were spoken by Christ, such power went with them, as restored the man to perfect health; and he finding himself to be quite well, rose up directly: and took up his bed and walked; which may be expressive of a sinner's rising from the bed of sin, and taking up the cross, or...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured,.... When they saw him, either at the place, or as he walked through the streets, with his bed on his back: it is the sabbath day: do not you know it? surely you forget yourself, or you would never be guilty of such an action as this; it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed. It was forbid by the...