John 5:1

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Healing a Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda After this there was a Jewish feast, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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  • Exod 23:14-17 : 14 “Three times in the year you must make a pilgrim feast to me. 15 You are to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Abib, for at that time you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before me empty-handed. 16 “You are also to observe the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors that you have sown in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year when you have gathered in your harvest out of the field. 17 At three times in the year all your males will appear before the Sovereign LORD.
  • Exod 34:23 : 23 At three times in the year all your men must appear before the Sovereign LORD, the God of Israel.
  • Lev 23:2-4 : 2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘These are the LORD’s appointed times which you must proclaim as holy assemblies– my appointed times: 3 The Weekly Sabbath“‘Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy assembly. You must not do any work; it is a Sabbath to the LORD in all the places where you live. 4 The Festival of Passover and Unleavened Bread“‘These are the LORD’s appointed times, holy assemblies, which you must proclaim at their appointed time.
  • Deut 16:16 : 16 Three times a year all your males must appear before the LORD your God in the place he chooses for the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Shelters; and they must not appear before him empty-handed.
  • John 2:13 : 13 Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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    12Cleansing the Temple After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days.

    13Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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    3So Jesus went on up the mountainside and sat down there with his disciples.

    4(Now the Jewish Feast of the Passover was near.)

  • John 5:2-3
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    2Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways.

    3A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways.

  • John 7:1-3
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    1The Feast of Shelters After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.

    2Now the Jewish Feast of Shelters was near.

    3So Jesus’ brothers advised him,“Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing.

  • John 11:54-56
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    54Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

    55Now the Jewish Feast of Passover was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually.

    56Thus they were looking for Jesus, and saying to one another as they stood in the temple courts,“What do you think? That he won’t come to the feast?”

  • John 4:45
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    45So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast(for they themselves had gone to the feast).

  • John 7:10-11
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    10But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.

    11So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the feast, asking,“Where is he?”

  • John 7:14
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    14Teaching in the Temple When the feast was half over, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.

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    1The Feeding of the Five Thousand After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee(also called the Sea of Tiberias).

  • John 5:15-16
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    15The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well.

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  • John 7:8
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    8You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived.”

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    7Then after this, he said to his disciples,“Let us go to Judea again.”

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    41Jesus in the Temple Now Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem every year for the Feast of the Passover.

    42When he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom.

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    11for on account of him many of the Jewish people from Jerusalem were going away and believing in Jesus.

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    43Onward to Galilee After the two days he departed from there to Galilee.

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    1But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

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    20Seekers Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up to worship at the feast.

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    8Jesus said to him,“Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk.”

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    11Then Jesus entered Jerusalem and went to the temple. And after looking around at everything, he went out to Bethany with the twelve since it was already late.

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    40Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.

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    3he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee.

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    5Then people from Jerusalem, as well as all Judea and all the region around the Jordan, were going out to him,

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