Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 5:7
The sick man answered — Giving the reason why he was not made whole, notwithstanding his desire.
The sick man answered — Giving the reason why he was not made whole, notwithstanding his desire.
Verse John 5:7. _SIR, I HAVE NO MAN_] Ναι, Κυριε - "Yes, sir; but I have no man:" - this is the reading of C*GH, _fourteen_ others, both the _Syriac_, later _Persic, Arabic_, and _Chrysostom_. Reader,...
SIR, I HAVE NO MAN ... - The answer of the man implied that he did wish it, but, in addition to all his other trials, he had no “friend” to aid him. This is an additional circumstance that heightened...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The Healing of the Impotent Man. (John 5:1 .)_ 2. The Opposition of the Jews. (John 5:10 .) 3. His Unity with the Father. (John 5:19 .) 4. The Present Hour. Believers Delivered from...
JOHN 5:1_ A_. THE POOL OF BETHZATHA. If in John 5:1 we read the feast, Tabernacles is probably meant (_cf. John 7:2)._ The true text, however, seems to have a feast. Pentecost, Purim (in March, to sui...
HAVE NO MAN, WHEN THE WATER IS TROUBLED, TO PUT ME INTO THE POOL. His attention was excited, but his only thought was of being healed by the pool. He explains that he has no man to put him into the po...
MAN'S HELPLESSNESS AND CHRIST'S POWER (John 5:1-9)...
After this there was a Feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In Jerusalem, near the sheepgate, there is a bathing-pool with five porches, which was called in Hebrew, Bethzatha. In these p...
SIR. Greek. _kurios_. App-98. B. b. Supply the _Ellipsis_ thus: "Sir [I am indeed willing, but]. have, "&c. NO. Greek. _ou._ App-105. TO. in order that (Greek. _hina)_ he may. TIME. when. INTO. Gr...
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
_I have no man_ He is not only sick but friendless. _is troubled_ No doubt this took place at irregular intervals, else there would be no need to wait and watch for it. _to put me into the pool_ Lite...
THE SIGN AT THE POOL OF BETHESDA...
ἌΝΘΡ. ΟΥ̓Κ ἜΧΩ. Not only sick, but friendless. See on John 4:11. ὍΤΑΝ ΤΑΡΑΧΘΗ͂Ι. WHENEVER &c. The disturbance took place at irregular intervals: hence the need to wait and watch for it. ΒΆΛΗΙ. Litera...
Ver 1. 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 por...
_THE LAME MAN HEALED AT THE POOL -- JOHN 5:1-13:_ We read, 'After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is cal...
ΆΠΕΚΡΊΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. (dep.) от_ ΆΠΟΚΡΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G611) отвечать, ΆΣΘΕΝΏΝ _praes. act. part. пот. masc. sing. от_ ΆΣΘΕΝΈΩ, _см._ John 5:3. Subst. part. подчеркивает эту особенность человека, ΤΑΡΑΧΘΉ...
SIR, I HAVE NO MAN, &C.— He complains for want of friends to help him in: "I have no man, no friend to do me that kindness." One would think some of those who had been themselves healed; would have le...
A HELPLESS MAN HEALED _Text 5:1-9_ 1 After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Heb...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 5:1-15 We begin with the usual Analysis:— "After this there was a feast of the Jews" (John 5:1). "After this" or, as it should be. "After these things," is an e...
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. THE IMPOTENT MAN ANSWERED HIM, SIR, I...
46 The first sign, at Calla, signifies the blessing of Israel in the kingdom. This, the second sign, is also at Calla, hence is also concerned with the coming kingdom. The wine prefigured the joy of t...
BETHESDA. CHRIST AND THE SABBATH 1-47. A miracle at the Pool of Bethesda on the Sabbath Day, and a controversy arising therefrom. This miracle may be regarded as a parable illustrating the deadly effe...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 5 JESUS CURES A SICK MAN 5:1-15 V1 After this, Jesus went to *Jerusalem for another *Jewish *festival. V2 There was a p...
What does the question mean? Will this Stranger, whom he has never seen before, do for him what none of those who often saw him had ever done? Will he watch for the bubbling water, and place him first...
CHAPTER 12 SABBATH CURE AT BETHESDA. “After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew B...
WEAKNESS MADE STRENGTH John 5:1-9 An interval of some months lies between the previous chapter and this, in which many of the incidents of our Lord's Galilean life took place. John does not touch on...
It was at this time that the conflict between Christ and His enemies, which culminated in His Cross began. A miracle wrought on the Sabbath gave rise to this first outbreak. Throughout this chapter we...
CHAPTER 13 THE POOL OF BETHESDA John 5:1-47. _“After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.”_ You always find the phraseology in the Bible, _“Go up to Jerusalem.”...
SECOND PART: THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNBELIEF IN ISRAEL. 5:1- 12:50. UP to this point, decided faith and unbelief have been only exceptional phenomena; the masses have remained in a state of passive indiff...
FIRST SECTION: 5:1-47. FIRST OUTBREAK OF HATRED IN JUDEA. 1. The miracle, occasion of the conflict: John 5:1-16; John 2. The discourse of Jesus, commentary and defense of the miracle: John 5:17-47....
“ _There was a man there_, _held by his sickness for thirty-eight years._ 6. _When Jesus saw him lying_, _and knew that he had been already sick for a long time, he said unto him: Dost thou wish to be...
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, withere...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
7._I have no man. _This diseased man does what almost all of us are wont to do; for he limits the assistance of God according to his own thought, and does not venture to promise to himself any thing m...
chapter 5 contrasts the quickening power of Christ, the power and the right of giving life to the dead, with the powerlessness of legal ordinances. They required strength in the person that was to pro...
THE IMPOTENT MAN ANSWERED HIM, SIR,.... Which was a common and courteous way of speaking, much in use with the Jews, especially to strangers. The Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions read, "yea Lord",...
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. Ver. 7. _I have no man, &c._] He looked...
_The impotent man answered, I have no man_ I am poor as well as lame, and unable to hire any one _to put me into the pool when the water is troubled_, and I have neither friend nor relation to do this...
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....
The healing:...
AGAIN IN JERUSALEM: THE POOL OF BETHESDA (vs.1-15) Once more we find the Lord Jesus visiting Jerusalem, and as in Chapter 2:13 the feast is called "the Jews' Passover" rather than the Passover of Jeh...
1-9 We are all by nature impotent folk in spiritual things, blind, halt, and withered; but full provision is made for our cure, if we attend to it. An angel went down, and troubled the water; and wha...
What his particular impotency was the Scripture doth not tell us. Some have (not improbably) judged it the palsy, which deprives the person of motion, by the stoppage of the animal spirits, so that wi...
Cyprian Treatise I On the Unity of the Church and again it is written of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, "And these three are one."[22]...
John 5:7 man G770 (G5723) answered G611 (G5662) Him G846 Sir G2962 have G2192 (G5719) no G3756
The sick 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 steps down before me”.' Someone may have brought the man there each d...
THE HEALING OF THE DISABLED MAN AT THE POOL (JOHN 5:1). When John recounts an incident in the life of Jesus we must always ask what it is intended to illustrate, for he always has a purpose in mind. H...
John 5:7. THE SICK MAN ANSWERED HIM, SIR, I HAVE NO MAN, WHEN THE WATER HATH BEEN TROUBLED, TO PUT ME INTO THE POOL: BUT WHILE I AM COMING, ANOTHER STEPPETH DOWN BEFORE ME. The man does not give a dir...
With the beginning of this chapter we enter upon the fourth and leading division of the Gospel, extending to the close of chap. 12. Its object is to set Jesus forth in the height of His conflict with...
WHEN THE WATER IS TROUBLED (οταν ταραχθη το υδωρ). Indefinite temporal clause with οταν and the first aorist passive subjunctive of ταρασσω, old verb to agitate (Matthew 2:3). The popular belief wa...
John 5:6 Consider whether, over and above the general typical features which we may detect in this miracle, there be not significative circumstances in the history from which, as Christians, we may d...
John 5:1. After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five por...
John 5:1. _After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem._ For he had respect to the Law. As long as the Law lasted, Christ observed it. Oh, that we were as careful to obey...
CONTENTS: Healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda. Jesus answers the Jews. The four-fold witness to Jesus. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, infirm man, John the Baptist, Moses. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ, th...
John 5:2. _Now there is at Jerusalem a pool, called Bethesda,_ which signifies a house of mercy, beneficence, or alms. The pool was situate at too great a distance from the temple to be a place for wa...
SIR, I DON'T HAVE ANYONE. The man seems hopeless, because he believes only the first one to get into the water would be healed. He could move by himself, but not fast enough....
_After this there was a feast of the Jews_ THE POOL OF BETHESDA, A TYPE OF FAVOURED LOCALITIES IN A RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY IN WHICH THE HIGHEST MIRACULOUS AID HAS NOT YET APPEARED The miraculous aid is...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:7 WHEN THE WATER IS STIRRED UP indicates that people thought that at least the first person entering the water would be healed. ⇐...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:1 Chapters John 5:1 tell of escalating conflict between Jesus and the Jewish authorities. As Jesus defends his ministry, he cites several major witnesses on his behalf....
1-47 CHAPTER 5 _After these things,_ &c. Observe, John here omits many things which Christ did in Galilee, but which Matthew records from the 4th to the 12th chapter of his Gospel. For what Matthew...
_The sick man answered_, &c. The sick man does not answer Christ's question directly. He takes for granted that every one knew that he desired to be healed. Therefore he makes mention of the way of ob...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ “Up to the present time our Lord has offered Himself to typical representatives of the whole Jewish race at Jerusalem, in Judæa, in Samaria, and in Galilee, in such a...
EXPOSITION Here commences the second division of the Gospel (John 5:1) II. THE CONFLICT WITH THE CHOSEN PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM, GALILEE, AND JERUSALEM, TO THE
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the fifth chapter of the gospel of John. John has just recorded in the fourth chapter the ministry of Jesus in the Galilee when He was at the city of Cana and the noblem...
1 Corinthians 9:24; 2 Corinthians 1:8; Deuteronomy 32:36; John 5:4;...
Put [β α λ η]. Literally, cast; indicating the hasty movement required to bring him to the water before its agitation should have ceased. See on Mark 7:30; Luke 16:20....
THE MAN MADE WHOLE John 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Every footstep of the Lord Jesus Christ was one of mercy and of grace. The beautiful thing about Christ's healing and helping hand is, that He made no...