John 5:3
A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways.
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- Lam 3:26 : 26 It is good to wait patiently for deliverance from the LORD.
- Matt 15:30 : 30 Then large crowds came to him bringing with them the lame, blind, crippled, mute, and many others. They laid them at his feet, and he healed them.
- Mark 3:1-4 : 1 Healing a Withered Hand Then Jesus entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a withered hand. 2 They watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they could accuse him. 3 So he said to the man who had the withered hand,“Stand up among all these people.” 4 Then he said to them,“Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath, or evil, to save a life or destroy it?” But they were silent.
- Luke 7:22 : 22 So he answered them,“Go tell John what you have seen and heard: The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news proclaimed to them.
- Rom 8:25 : 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance.
- Jas 5:7 : 7 Patience in Suffering So be patient, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s return. Think of how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the ground and is patient for it until it receives the early and late rains.
- Zech 11:17 : 17 Woe to the worthless shepherd who abandons the flock! May a sword fall on his arm and his right eye! May his arm wither completely away, and his right eye become completely blind!”
- 1 Kgs 13:4 : 4 When the king heard the prophet’s message that he had cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam took his hand from the altar and pointed it saying,“Seize him!” Then the hand that he had pointed at him stiffened up and he could not pull it back.
- Prov 8:34 : 34 Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching at my doors day by day, waiting beside my doorway.
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- John 5:1-22 verses87%
1 Healing a Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda 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.
- John 5:5-1511 verses82%
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.”
11 But he answered them,“The man who made me well said to me,‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”
12 They asked him,“Who is the man who said to you,‘Pick up your mat and walk’?”
13 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.
14 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.”
15 The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well.
- Matt 15:30-312 verses76%
30 Then large crowds came to him bringing with them the lame, blind, crippled, mute, and many others. They laid them at his feet, and he healed them.
31 As a result, the crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing, and they praised the God of Israel.
- Luke 5:17-193 verses74%
17 Healing and Forgiving a Paralytic Now on one of those days, while he was teaching, there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting nearby(who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem), and the power of the Lord was with him to heal.
18 Just then some men showed up, carrying a paralyzed man on a stretcher. They were trying to bring him in and place him before Jesus.
19 But since they found no way to carry him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down on the stretcher through the roof tiles right in front of Jesus.
- Acts 5:15-162 verses73%
15 Thus they even carried the sick out into the streets, and put them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow would fall on some of them.
16 A crowd of people from the towns around Jerusalem also came together, bringing the sick and those troubled by unclean spirits. They were all being healed.
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2 And a man lame from birth was being carried up, who was placed at the temple gate called“the Beautiful Gate” every day so he could beg for money from those going into the temple courts.
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9 if we are being examined today for a good deed done to a sick man– by what means this man was healed–
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15 But the news about him spread even more, and large crowds were gathering together to hear him and to be healed of their illnesses.
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11 Peter Addresses the Crowd While the man was hanging on to Peter and John, all the people, completely astounded, ran together to them in the covered walkway called Solomon’s Portico.
- Mark 2:3-42 verses69%
3 Some people came bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them.
4 When they were not able to bring him in because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Jesus. Then, after tearing it out, they lowered the stretcher the paralytic was lying on.
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14 The blind and lame came to him in the temple courts, and he healed them.
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2 A large crowd was following him because they were observing the miraculous signs he was performing on the sick.
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8 Paul and Barnabas at Lystra In Lystra sat a man who could not use his feet, lame from birth, who had never walked.
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5 The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them
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12 And immediately the man stood up, took his stretcher, and went out in front of them all. They were all amazed and glorified God, saying,“We have never seen anything like this!”
- Mark 6:55-562 verses68%
55 They ran through that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever he was rumored to be.
56 And wherever he would go– into villages, towns, or countryside– they would place the sick in the marketplaces, and would ask him if they could just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.
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22 For the man, on whom this miraculous sign of healing had been performed, was over forty years old.
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33 He found there a man named Aeneas who had been confined to a mattress for eight years because he was paralyzed.
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21 At that very time Jesus cured many people of diseases, sicknesses, and evil spirits, and granted sight to many who were blind.
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26 She had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse.
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11 and a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten herself up completely.
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6 Then the lame will leap like a deer, the mute tongue will shout for joy; for water will burst forth in the wilderness, streams in the arid rift valley.
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2 Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
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10 For he had healed many, so that all who were afflicted with diseases pressed toward him in order to touch him.
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7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud shrieks, were coming out of many who were possessed, and many paralyzed and lame people were healed.
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29 At once the bleeding stopped, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.
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2 There right in front of him was a man whose body was swollen with fluid.
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33 The whole town gathered by the door.
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32 They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking, and they asked him to place his hands on him.
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18 and those who suffered from unclean spirits were cured.
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20 But at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus whose body was covered with sores,
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12 The Apostles Perform Miraculous Signs and Wonders Now many miraculous signs and wonders came about among the people through the hands of the apostles. By common consent they were all meeting together in Solomon’s Portico.