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John 5:4 KJV
John · chapter 5 · verse 4
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.John 5:4 · King James Version
John 5:4 in context
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.
6When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- troublingtarachēdisturbance, commotion, metaph. a tumult, seditionG5016 →
- troubledtarassōto agitate, trouble , to cause one inward commotion, take away his calmness of mind…G5015 →
- seasonkairosdue measure, a measure of time, a larger or smaller portion of time, hence , a fixed and…G2540 →
- angelangelosa messenger, envoy, one who is sent, an angel, a messenger from GodG32 →
- waterhydōrwater, of water in rivers, in fountains, in pools, of the water of the deluge, of water…G5204 →
- firstprōtosfirst in time or place, in any succession of things or persons, first in rank, influence…G4413 →
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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