1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. We don't know which feast this is, but it is a big one. 2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. This is at the sheep gate, a small gate where they brought in the sheep for sacrifice. You only brought sheep in through here. The pool was discovered by archeologists and excavated, being divided into two sections. It's part of a water/spring network under Jerusalem. The five porches were also found. 3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. These are handicapped people waiting out here. 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. There's a lot of controversy about this verse. An angel came and stirred the water and the first one in the water after the stirring was healed. One reason for the controversy over this verse is that in some manuscripts it's omitted. If this verse isn't true and wasn't part of the time, then verse 7 needs to be omitted too. We are not to question God and His ways; we are to accept His word in faith. God tells us what He wants us to know and doesn't tell us what we don't need to know. When Adam and Eve were about, God didn't tell them about the evil that was around. All they knew was good. But Eve's curiosity got the better of her and disobeyed God and ate the apple and discovered evil. 5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and...
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