ἔγειρε, ἆρον. As with the paralytic (Mark 2:9), Christ does not ask as to the man’s faith: He knew that he had it; and the man’s attempting to rise and carry his bed after 38 years of impotence was an open confession of faith.
κράβαττον. Grabatus (Cic. Div. II. LXIII.); a pallet: probably only a mat or rug, still common in the East. The word is said to be Macedonian (Mark 2:4; Mark 6:55; Acts 5:15; Acts 9:33).
Verse John 5:8. _RISE, TAKE UP THY BED, AND WALK._] Jesus speaks here as God. He speaks in no name but his own, and with an authority which belongs to God alone. And what is the consequence? The man...
RISE, TAKE UP ... - Jesus not only restored him to health, but he gave evidence to those around him that this was a real miracle. and that he was really healed. For almost 40 years he had been afflict...
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...
RISE, TAKE UP THY BED, AND WALK. Then came the command to rise and walk. When the Lord commanded there was always prompt obedience. He spoke not as man, but as the Son of God. He healed not by some ot...
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...
RISE. App-178. THE THIRD SIGN. See App-176. BED. A rough cotton wool quilt called to-day khaf, the poor man's bed. The Greek _krabbaton_ is. Latin word meaning. "pallet"....
_Rise, take up thy bed_ As in the case of the paralytic (Mark 2:9), Christ makes no enquiry as to the man's faith. Christ knew that he had faith; and the man's attempting to rise and carry his bed aft...
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...
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...
ΈΓΕΙΡΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΈΓΕΊΡΩ (G1453) подниматься. Об идиоматическом использовании _praes. imper. от_ этого гл. _см._ VANT, 348-49. ΆΡΟΝ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΑΊΡΩ (G142) подбирать, поднимать...
RISE, TAKE UP THY BED, AND WALK, &C.— Though it was the sabbath-day, and the doctors affirmed that the bearing of any burden was a profanation of the holy rest, Jesus ordered the man to carry his bed...
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...
Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, RISE, TAKE UP THY BED, AND WALK....
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...
THY BED] i.e. mat....
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...
JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM. — There is no formal demand, or formal statement of faith as preceding the healing. (Comp., _e.g.,_ Notes on Matthew 13:58; Mark 9:24.) Men have often wondered at this. If faith...
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...
The impotent man having declared his helplessness, Jesus says to him, Ἔγειρε, a command to be obeyed on the moment by faith in Him who gave it. _Cf._ John 6:63, and Augustine's “Da quod jubes, et jube...
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...
_Arise, take up thy bed, and walk. The man found himself healed at that very moment, and did as he was ordered, though it was the sabbath-day. The Jews blamed him for it: he told them, that he who had...
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.”...
“ _Jesus saith unto him: Arise_, _take up thy bed_, _and walk._ 9. _And immediately the man was healed_, _and he took up his bed, and walked. Now that day was a Sabbath._ ” The word κράββατος comes f...
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....
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...
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...
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...
JESUS SAITH TO HIM, RISE,.... From thy bed, or couch, on which he lay in one of the porches: and TAKE UP THY BED AND WALK; these words were spoken by the same power, as those to Lazarus, which called...
Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. Ver. 8. _Rise, take up thy bed, &c._] A servile work upon the sabbath day. This our Saviour here commends not as a servile work, but for confirm...
_Jesus saith, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk_ A strange command to be given to an impotent man, that had been long disabled; but this divine word was to be the vehicle of a divine power; it was a com...
THY BED; which was a simple mat....
The healing:...
JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, RISE, TAKE UP THY BED, AND WALK....
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...
Our Lord will let this poor man know, that the waters and the angel derived their power from him; and that he with a word could do as much for him, as the waters troubled by the angel could effect: he...
A Treatise on Re-Baptism by an Anonymous Writer Moreover, I think also that we have not unsuitably set in order the teaching of the Apostle John, who says that "three bear witness, the Spirit, and th...
John 5:8 Jesus G2424 said G3004 (G5719) him G846 Rise G1453 (G5669) up G142 (G5657) your G4675
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...
‘And Jesus says to him, “Stand up, take up your bed and walk.” And the man was made whole immediately, and took up his bed and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.' Then Jesus said, ‘Rise, take...
John 5:8. JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, RISE, TAKE UP THY BED, AND WALK. The cure is performed in the most simple and direct manner. It is not said that Jesus laid His hands on him (Luke 13:13), or that He to...
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...
ARISE, TAKE UP THY BED, AND WALK (Εγειρε, αρον τον κραβαττον σου κα περιπατε). Present active imperative of εγειρω, a sort of exclamation, like our "Get up." The first active imperative (αρον of αιρ...
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...
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...
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...
GET UP. Jesus spoke with authority, as the Son of God....
_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 5:1 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...
_Jesus saith unto him_, &c. These words of Christ were practical and efficacious. In saying _Arise_, He caused him to arise, and healed him. As S. Augustine says, "It was not a command of work, but an...
_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...
Acts 9:34; Luke 5:24; Mark 2:11; Matthew 9:6...
Bed [κ ρ α β β α τ ο ν]. Used by both Mark and Luke. See on Mark 2:4, and compare Acts 5:15; Acts 9:33....
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...