John 5:5

Literal Standard Version

And there was a certain man there being in ailment thirty-eight years,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
One man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

King James Version (1611)
And a certaine man was there, which had an infirmitie thirtie and eight yeeres.

King James Version
And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.

English Standard Version
One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

New American Standard Bible
Now a man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

New Century Version
A man was lying there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

Amplified Bible
There was a certain man there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
A man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

Legacy Standard Bible
And a man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

Berean Standard Bible
One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

Contemporary English Version
Beside the pool was a man who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

Complete Jewish Bible
One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

Darby Translation
But there was a certain man there who had been suffering under his infirmity thirty and eight years.

Easy-to-Read Version
One of the men lying there had been sick for 38 years.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And a certaine man was there, which had bene diseased eight and thirtie yeeres.

George Lamsa Translation
A man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

Good News Translation
A man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

Lexham English Bible
And a certain man was there who had been thirty-eight years in his sickness.

Literal Translation
But a certain man was there, being in infirmity thirty eight years.

American Standard Version
And a certain man was there, who had been thirty and eight years in his infirmity.

Bible in Basic English
One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

Hebrew Names Version
A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

International Standard Version
One particular man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

Etheridge Translation
But a certain man was there who for thirtyand-eight years had been in a disease.

Murdock Translation
And a certain man was there, who had been diseased thirty and eight years.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And a certaine man was there, which had ben diseased thirtie & eyght yeres.

English Revised Version
And a certain man was there, which had been thirty and eight years in his infirmity.

World English Bible
A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And a certain man was there, who had been diseased eight and thirty years.

Weymouth's New Testament
And there was one man there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And a man was there, hauynge eiyte and thritti yeer in his sikenesse.

Update Bible Version
And a certain man was there, who had been thirty and eight years in his infirmity.

Webster's Bible Translation
And a certain man was there, who had an infirmity thirty and eight years.

New English Translation
Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

New King James Version
Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.

New Living Translation
One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years.

New Life Bible
A man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

New Revised Standard
One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And there was a certain man there, who, for thirty-eight years, had continued in his sickness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there was a certain man there that had been eight and thirty years under his infirmity.

Revised Standard Version
One man was there, who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And a certayne ma was theare which had bene diseased .xxxviii. yeares

Young's Literal Translation
and there was a certain man there being in ailment thirty and eight years,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And there was a man, which had lyen sicke eight and thirtie yeares.

Mace New Testament (1729)
now a certain man was there, who had been sick eight and thirty years.

Simplified Cowboy Version
One man had been lying there sick for thirty-eight years.

Contextual Overview

¹After these things there was a celebration of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, ²and there is in Jerusalem by the sheep-[gate] a pool that is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches, ³in these were lying a great multitude of the ailing, blind, lame, withered, [[waiting for the moving of the water, ⁴for a messenger at a set time was going down in the pool, and was troubling the water, the first then having gone in after the troubling of the water, became whole of whatever sickness he was held.]] ⁵And there was a certain man there being in ailment thirty-eight years,⁶him Jesus having seen lying, and having known that he is already a long time, He says to him, "Do you wish to become whole?" ⁷The ailing man answered Him, "Lord, I have no man, that, when the water may be troubled, he may put me into the pool, and while I am coming, another goes down before me." ⁸Jesus says to him, "Rise, take up your pallet, and be walking"; ⁹and immediately the man became whole, and he took up his pallet, and was walking, and it was a Sabbath on that day, ¹⁰the Jews then said to him that has been healed, "It is a Sabbath; it is not lawful to you to take up the pallet."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thirty: John 5:14, John 9:1, John 9:21, Mark 9:21, Luke 8:43, Luke 13:16, Acts 3:2, Acts 4:22, Acts 9:33, Acts 14:8

Reciprocal: Job 13:26 - makest Psalms 25:7 - the sins Mark 5:25 - twelve Luke 5:18 - General Luke 13:11 - eighteen

Cross-References

Genesis 3:19
by the sweat of your face you eat bread until your return to the ground, for you have been taken out of it, for dust you [are], and to dust you return."

Genesis 5:7
And Seth lives after his begetting Enos eight hundred and seven years [[or seven hundred and seven years]], and begets sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:8
And all the days of Seth are nine hundred and twelve years, and he dies.

Genesis 5:10
And Enos lives after his begetting Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years [[or seven hundred and fifteen years]], and begets sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:11
And all the days of Enos are nine hundred and five years, and he dies.

Genesis 5:12
And Cainan lives seventy years [[or one hundred and seventy years]], and begets Mahalaleel.

Genesis 5:14
And all the days of Cainan are nine hundred and ten years, and he dies.

Genesis 5:21
And Enoch lives sixty-five years [[or one hundred and sixty-five years]], and begets Methuselah.

Genesis 5:22
And Enoch habitually walks with God after his begetting Methuselah three hundred years [[or two hundred years]], and begets sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:32
And Noah is a son of five hundred years, and Noah begets Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And a certain man was there,.... At Bethesda's pool, in one of the five porches, or cloisters, that belonged to it:

which had an infirmity thirty and eight years; what his infirmity was, is not said; he was one of the weak, or impotent folk, for so he is called, John 5:7. Some think his distemper was the palsy, and though he had had this infirmity so many years, it is not certain that he had waited so long in this place for a cure; though it may be, for that he had attended some time, is clear from John 5:7. Nor indeed can it be known how long there had been such a preternatural motion in this pool, and such a miraculous virtue in the water; some have thought, that it began at the repairing of the sheep gate by Eliashib, in Nehemiah's time; so Tremellius and Junius, on Nehemiah 3:1; and others have thought, that it had been some few years before the birth of Christ, and about the time that this man was first taken with his disorder. Tertullian says u, that there was in Judea a medicinal lake, before Christ's time; and that the pool of Bethsaida (it should be Bethesda) was useful in curing the diseases of the Israelites; but ceased from yielding any benefit, when the name of the Lord was blasphemed by them, through their rage and fury, and continuance in it w; but in what year it began, and the precise time it ceased, he says not. The Persic version here adds, "and was reduced to such a state that he could not move".

u De Anima, c. 50. w Adv. Judaeos, c. 13.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

An infirmity - A weakness. We know not what his disease was. We know only that it disabled him from walking, and that it was of very long standing. It was doubtless regarded as incurable.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 5:5. Had an infirmity thirty and eight years. — St. Chrysostom conjectured that blindness was the infirmity of this person: what it was, the inspired writer does not say - probably it was a palsy: his case was deplorable - he was not able to go into the pool himself, and he had no one to help him; so that poverty and disease were here connected. The length of the time he had been afflicted makes the miracle of his cure the greater. There could have been no collusion in this case: as his affliction had lasted thirty-eight years, it must have been known to multitudes; therefore he could not be a person prepared for the occasion. All Christ's miracles have been wrought in such a way, and on such persons and occasions, as absolutely to preclude all possibility of the suspicion of imposture.