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In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, [a]paralyzed, [b]waiting for the moving of the water.

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  1. John 5:3 withered
  2. John 5:3 NU omits the rest of v. 3 and all of v. 4.

Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches.[a]

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  1. 5:3 Some manuscripts add an expanded conclusion to verse 3 and all of verse 4: waiting for a certain movement of the water, for an angel of the Lord came from time to time and stirred up the water. And the first person to step in after the water was stirred was healed of whatever disease he had.

In these porticoes lay a great number of people who were sick, blind, lame, withered, [a][waiting for the stirring of the water;

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  1. John 5:3 Early mss do not contain the remainder of v 3, nor v 4.

Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.

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In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

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