John 5:3 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Under these porches a large number of sick people-people who were blind, lame, or paralyzed-used to lie. (GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

ASV:

In these lay a multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

BBE:

In these doorways there were a great number of people with different diseases: some unable to see, some without the power of walking, some with wasted bodies.

DBY:

In these lay a multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, awaiting the moving of the water.

ERV:

In these lay a multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt, withered.

WEY:

In these there used to lie a great number of sick persons, and of people who were blind or lame or paralyzed.

WBS:

In these lay a great multitude of impotent persons, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

WEB:

In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;

YLT:

in these were lying a great multitude of the ailing, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water,

John 5:3 Cross References

XREF:

John 5:2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes.

John 5:4 for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

5:3,4 In these lay a great multitude. All that follows the word withered in the third verse and all the fourth are wanting in the best MSS, and are evidently an interpolation.

MHC:

5:1-9 We are all by nature impotent folk in spiritual things, blind, halt, and withered; but full provision is made for our cure, if we attend to it. An angel went down, and troubled the water; and what disease soever it was, this water cured it, but only he that first stepped in had benefit. This teaches us to be careful, that we let not a season slip which may never return. The man had lost the use of his limbs thirty-eight years. Shall we, who perhaps for many years have scarcely known what it has been to be a day sick, complain of one wearisome night, when many others, better than we, have scarcely known what it has been to be a day well? Christ singled this one out from the rest. Those long in affliction, may comfort themselves that God keeps account how long. Observe, this man speaks of the unkindness of those about him, without any peevish reflections. As we should be thankful, so we should be patient. Our Lord Jesus cures him, though he neither asked nor thought of it. Arise, and walk. God's command, Turn and live; Make ye a new heart; no more supposes power in us without the grace of God, his distinguishing grace, than this command supposed such power in the impotent man: it was by the power of Christ, and he must have all the glory. What a joyful surprise to the poor cripple, to find himself of a sudden so easy, so strong, so able to help himself! The proof of spiritual cure, is our rising and walking. Has Christ healed our spiritual diseases, let us go wherever he sends us, and take up whatever he lays upon us; and walk before him.

CONC:

Ailing Awaiting Blind Bodies Different Diseases Doorways Folk Halt Impotent Invalids Lame Lay Lie Lying Moving Multitude Paralyzed Persons Power Sick Unable Waiting Walking Wasted Waters Withered

Ailing Awaiting Blind Bodies Different Disabled Diseases Doorways Folk Great Halt Impotent Lay Moving Multitude Paralyzed Persons Power Sick Unable Used Waiting Walking Wasted Water Waters Withered

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