John 5:1-18 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.… Jesus says to the man not "Dost thou desire?" but "Art thou really determined?" For the desire is not doubtful, but energy of will seems wanting. It can only be restored by means of faith. On the one hand Jesus draws the sufferer from the dark despondency into which his long and useless waiting had plunged him, and revives his hopes; on the other, he withdraws his mind from the source of cure to which it was exclusively attached, and puts him in moral connection with the true Bethesda. (F. Godet, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.WEB: After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. |
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