John 5:1

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - John 5:1-16

This miraculous cure is not recorded by any other of the evangelists, who confine themselves mostly to the miracles wrought in Galilee, but John relates those wrought at Jerusalem. Concerning this observe, I. The time when this cure was wrought: it was at a feast of the Jews, that is, the passover, for that was the most celebrated feast. Christ, though residing in Galilee, yet went up to Jerusalem at the feast, John 5:1. 1. Because it was an ordinance of God, which, as a subject, he would... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 5:1-9

5:1-9 After this there was a Feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In Jerusalem, near the sheepgate, there is a bathing-pool with five porches, which was called in Hebrew, Bethzatha. In these porches there lay a crowd of people who were ill and blind and lame and whose limbs were withered [waiting expectantly for the moving of the water. For an angel of the Lord came down into the pool every now and then and disturbed the water; so the first person to go in after the disturbing... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 5:1-9

Certain scholars think this passage is an allegory. The man stands for the people of Israel. The five porches stand for the five books of the law. In the porches the people lay ill. The law could show a man his sin, but could never mend it; the law could uncover a man's weakness, but could never cure it. The law, like the porches, sheltered the sick soul but could never heal it. The thirty-eight years stand for the thirty-eight years in which the Jews wandered in the desert before they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 5:1

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 feast of tabernacles; or rather, the feast of the passover, so called, in John 4:45 since John is very particular, in giving an account of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 5:1

A feast - This is generally supposed, by the best critics, to have been the feast of the passover, which was the most eminent feast among the Jews. In several excellent MSS. the article is added, ἡ ἑορτη , The feast, the grand, the principal festival. Petavius supposes that the feast of Purim, or lots, is here meant; and one MS. reads ἡ σκηνοπηγια , the feast of Tabernacles. Several of the primitive fathers believe Pentecost to be intended; and they are followed by many of the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 5:1

Verse 1 1.There was a feast of the Jews. Though the Evangelist does not expressly state whatfeast this was, yet the probable conjecture is that he means Pentecost, at least if what is here related took place immediately after that Christ came into Galilee. For immediately after the Passover he set out from Jerusalem, and, as he was passing through Samaria, he reckoned four months to the harvest; having entered Galilee he cured the courtier’s son. The Evangelist adds that the feast came... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 5:1

II. THE CONFLICT WITH THE CHOSEN PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM , GALILEE , AND JERUSALEM , TO THE DEATH SENTENCE RECORDED BY THE SANHEDRIN . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 5:1

The journey to Jerusalem is said to have taken place at the time of "a feast," or "the feast of the Jews." £ After these things ( μετα ταῦτα ) . Suggesting a number of events, not necessarily connected with each other. (For the latter idea of a period expressed by μετα τοῦτο see John 2:12 and John 11:7 , John 11:11 ; for μετα ταῦτα , see John 6:1 and John 21:1 . etc.) There was the feast of the Jews. Now, "the feast" of the Jews could hardly be any other than the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 5:1-9

(1) A sign on a paralyzed body and an unsusceptible soul. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 5:1-9

The cure of the impotent man. The scene changes once more to Jerusalem. There unbelief develops very rapidly, and. there is a foreshadowing of the dread reality: "It cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem." Jesus finds himself once more in the very focus of controversy. I. THE TIME OF THIS MIRACLE . "After these things there was a feast of the Jews." It is generally believed that this was the Feast of Purim. 1 . It was not one of the three great feasts. 2 ... read more

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