Oh, how I love this passage.

Oh, it makes me ask so many questions, such as

• Where is this pool today?
• Why did the man have to wait 38 years?
• How come no one noticed this dear man before now?
• Would I be selfless enough to have given up my spot to him had I lived then?
• Did Jesus heal others that day as well?
• What did this man think when Jesus approached him? What made Him trust Jesus?
• What did the man learn through all those years?

Then, I see Jesus’ power and care. Do you see that He loved and cared for this man who had no family to help him. Jesus cares. Oh, how Jesus cares. He is the same Jesus today!

John 5:1-10

“5 After this 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.

¹⁰ The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.”