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John 5

[1]...there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. [2]Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. [3]In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. [4]For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. [5]And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. [6]When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? [7]The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. [8]Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. [9]And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

[1]...there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. [2]Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. [3]In these lay many invalids -- blind, lame, and paralyzed. [4][Omitted in NRSV] [5]One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. [6]When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to 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; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me." [8]Jesus said to him, "Stand up, take your mat and walk." [9]At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was a sabbath.

[1]...Jesus went to Jerusalem for a religious festival. [2]Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool with five porches; in Hebrew it is called Bethzatha. [3]A large crowd of sick people were lying on the porches--the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed. [4][Omitted in TEV] [5]A man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years. [6]Jesus saw him lying there, and he knew that the man had been sick for such a long time; so he asked him, "Do you want to get well?" [7]The sick man answered, "Sir, I don't have anyone here to put me in the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am trying to get in, somebody else gets there first." [8]Jesus said to him, "Get up, pick up your mat, and walk." [9]Immediately the man got well; he picked up his mat and started walking. The day this happened was a Sabbath,

An analysis of all available manuscripts show that part of verse 3 and all of verse 4 were not part of the original text of the Gospel of John. According to Bruce Metzger's definitive Textual Commentary of the Greek New Testament, Second Edition (New York: United Bible Societies, 1993, page 179),}

5.3... A variety of witnesses [manuscripts] add ["waiting for the moving of the water"], perhaps in order to explain the reference in ver. 7 to the troubling of the water. The reading however, is lacking in the oldest and best witnesses... and contains two non-Johannine (non-John) words...

5.4... Ver. 4 is a gloss, whose secondary character is clear from (1) its absence from the earliest and best witnesses..., (2) the presence of asterisks or obeli to mark the words as spurious in more than twenty Greek witnesses..., (3) the presence of non-Johannine words or expressions..., and (4) the rather wide diversity of variant forms in which the verse was transmitted.

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