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John 5:3 KJV
John · chapter 5 · verse 3
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.John 5:3 · King James Version
John 5:3 in context
1After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
3In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
4For 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.
5And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- multitudeplēthosa multitude, a great number, of men or things, the whole number, the whole multitude, the…G4128 →
- witheredxērosdry, of members of the body deprived of their natural juices, shrunk, wasted, withered…G3584 →
- movingkinēsisa moving, agitationG2796 →
- greatpolysmany, much, largeG4183 →
- blindtyphlosblind, mentally blindG5185 →
- folkastheneōto be weak, feeble, to be without strength, powerless, to be weak in means, needy, poor…G770 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-16