John 5:3

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Lam 3:26 : 26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
  • Matt 15:30 : 30 Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them,
  • Mark 3:1-4 : 1 He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered. 2 They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him. 3 He said to the man who had his hand withered, "Stand up." 4 He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?" But they were silent.
  • Luke 7:22 : 22 Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
  • Rom 8:25 : 25 But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience.
  • Jas 5:7 : 7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
  • Zech 11:17 : 17 Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!"
  • 1 Kgs 13:4 : 4 It happened, when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, that Jeroboam put out his hand from the altar, saying, "Seize him!" His hand, which he put out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to himself.
  • Prov 8:34 : 34 Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.

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  • John 5:1-2
    2 verses
    87%

    1 After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

    2 Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, "Bethesda," having five porches.

  • John 5:4-15
    12 verses
    86%

    4 for an angel went down at certain times into the pool, and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made whole of whatever disease he had.

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

    6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?"

    7 The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming, another steps down before me."

    8 Jesus said to him, "Arise, take up your mat, and walk."

    9 Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.

    10 So the Jews said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat."

    11 He answered them, "He who made me well, the same said to me, 'Take up your mat, and walk.'"

    12 Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your mat, and walk'?"

    13 But he who was healed didn't know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.

    14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you."

    15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

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    30 Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them,

    31 so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute speaking, injured whole, lame walking, and blind seeing--and they glorified the God of Israel.

  • Luke 5:17-19
    3 verses
    74%

    17 It happened on one of those days, that he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.

    18 Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before Jesus.

    19 Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the midst before Jesus.

  • Acts 5:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15 They even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mattresses, so that as Peter came by, at the least his shadow might overshadow some of them.

    16 Multitudes also came together from the cities around Jerusalem, bringing sick people, and those who were tormented by unclean spirits: and they were all healed.

  • 2 A certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

  • 9 if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,

  • 15 But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.

  • 11 As the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.

  • Mark 2:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3 Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him.

    4 When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on.

  • 14 The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

  • 2 A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick.

  • 8 At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked.

  • 5 the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

  • 12 He arose, and immediately took up the mat, and went out in front of them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"

  • Mark 6:55-56
    2 verses
    68%

    55 and ran around that whole region, and began to bring those who were sick, on their mats, to where they heard he was.

    56 Wherever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch just the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well.

  • 22 For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.

  • 33 There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.

  • 21 In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits; and to many who were blind he gave sight.

  • 26 and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse,

  • 11 Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up.

  • 6 Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

  • 2 Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

  • 10 For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him.

  • 7 For unclean spirits came out of many of those who had them. They came out, crying with a loud voice. Many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.

  • 29 Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.

  • 2 Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.

  • 33 All the city was gathered together at the door.

  • 32 They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.

  • 18 as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits, and they were being healed.

  • 20 A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores,

  • 12 By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.