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John 5:3-5
Contemporary English Version
John 5:3-5
Contemporary English Version
3-4 Many sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying close to the pool.[a]
5 Beside the pool was a man who had been sick for 38 years.
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- 5.3,4 pool: Some manuscripts add, “They were waiting for the water to be stirred, because an angel from the Lord would sometimes come down and stir it. The first person to get into the pool after that would be healed.”
John 5:3-5
New International Version
John 5:3-5
New International Version
3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. [4] [a] 5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
Footnotes
- John 5:4 Some manuscripts include here, wholly or in part, paralyzed—and they waited for the moving of the waters. 4 From time to time an angel of the Lord would come down and stir up the waters. The first one into the pool after each such disturbance would be cured of whatever disease they had.
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