John 5:5

The NET Bible®

Now a man was there who had been disabled for 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 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

¹ After this there was a Jewish feast, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways. ³ A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways. Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, "Do you want to become well?" The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me." Jesus said to him, "Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk." Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.) So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat." But he answered them, "The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.'" They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk'?" But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place. After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "Look, you have become well. Don't sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you." The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well. Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him. So he told them, "My Father is working until now, and I too am working." For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God. So Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes. Furthermore, the Father does not judge anyone, but has assigned all judgment to the Son, so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. "I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life. I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming—and is now here—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself, and he has granted the Son authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. "Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and will come out—the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation. I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me. "If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. There is another who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he testifies about me is true. You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. (I do not accept human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved.) He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light. "But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete—the deeds I am now doing—testify about me that the Father has sent me. And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time, nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent. You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me, ⁴ but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life. "I do not accept praise from people, but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you. I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don't seek the praise that comes from the only God? "Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me. But if you do not believe what Moses wrote, how will you believe my words?" ⁵ Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. ⁶ When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, "Do you want to become well?" ⁷ The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me." ⁸ Jesus said to him, "Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk." ⁹ Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.) ¹⁰ So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat."

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 brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return."

Genesis 5:7
Seth lived 807 years after he became the father of Enosh, and he had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:8
The entire lifetime of Seth was 912 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:10
Enosh lived 815 years after he became the father of Kenan, and he had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:11
The entire lifetime of Enosh was 905 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:12
When Kenan had lived 70 years, he became the father of Mahalalel.

Genesis 5:14
The entire lifetime of Kenan was 910 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:21
When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah.

Genesis 5:22
After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God for 300 years, and he had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:32
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of 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.