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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 5:1-18

The Healing of the Disabled Man at the Pool (John 5:1-18 ). When John recounts an incident in the life of Jesus we must always ask what it is intended to illustrate, for he always has a purpose in mind. Here the aim is to demonstrate that God is working through Jesus (John 5:17). Here, ‘The lame walk’, and indication that Messianic days are here (Matthew 11:5; Luke 7:22 compare Isaiah 35:6). The Judge is here (John 5:14 with John 5:27-29). Among them is the One Who makes whole (John 5:9; John... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 5:2

‘Now there is in Jerusalem, near the Sheep Gate, a pool which in Hebrew is called Bethesda’ (or Bethzatha or Bethsaida or, less likely, Belzetha - the manuscripts differ widely) ‘which has five covered collonades’. The pool was clearly renowned for its healing properties which occurred at various times at ‘the moving of the water’ (v. 7), and the five collonades had presumably been built round it to aid those who came seeking healing. Its site is uncertain but a pool that adequately fits the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 5:3

‘In these lay a great crowd of those who were sick, blind, lame and withered.’ Many people with all kinds of disablement would lie round the pool because the belief was that when there was a stirring in the water, (presumably from an intermittent spring), it had healing powers. read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - John 5:1-9

John 5:1-1 Samuel : a . The Pool of Bethzatha.— If in John 5:1 we read “ the feast,” Tabernacles is probably meant ( cf. John 7:2) . The true text, however, seems to have “ a feast.” Pentecost, Purim (in March, to suit John 4:35 taken as a note of time and not as a proverb), and Trumpets (September) have been suggested. It is best to leave the matter where the author has left it. He does not seem to know. He speaks of the pool at the Sheep Gate (NE. corner of the Temple area; cf. Nehemiah... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 5:2

We read in Scripture of the sheep gate in Jerusalem, Nehemiah 3:1. There was also a market for sheep and other cattle, Deuteronomy 14:26. Some therefore add market, others add gate, to the word in the Greek signifying sheep. Near to this gate or market there was a pool, kolumbhyra: some translate it, a fish pool; others, (more properly), a place to wash or to swim in (the word derives from a verb that signifies, to swim). They say there were two such pools within the compass of the mount on... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 5:3

In these apartments (called here porches) there were a great number of sick persons, some labouring under one infirmity, some under another, some blind, some lame, waiting for the time the water should be troubled. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - John 5:1-18

EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES“Up to the present time our Lord has offered Himself to typical representatives of the whole Jewish race at Jerusalem, in Judæa, in Samaria, and in Galilee, in such a way as to satisfy the elements of true faith. Now the conflict begins which issues in the Passion. Step by step faith and unbelief are called out in a parallel development. The works and words of Christ become a power for the revelation of men’s thoughts. The main scene of this saddest of all... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 5:2-3

John 5:2-3 Scripture a Record of Human Sorrow I. There lay about the Pool of Bethesda a great multitude of impotent folk of blind, halt, and withered. This is a painful picture, such as we do not like to dwell upon a picture of a chief kind of human suffering, bodily disease; one which suggests to us and typifies all other suffering the most obvious fulfilment of that curse which Adam's fall brought upon his descendants. Now it must strike everyone who thinks about it that the Bible is full of... read more

C.I. Scofield