Lesson 4492

 (Lesson 4492)(05-21-24) John 5:1-13 

“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 porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? 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. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath. The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed. He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk. Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk? And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.” 

In today’s quote, Jesus travelled to Jerusalem for a Jewish feast. At the pool of Bethesda, known for its healing waters, He encountered a man who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. Seeing the man's plight, Jesus asked if he wanted to be healed. The man explained that he had no one to help him into the pool when the water is stirred. Jesus told him, "Rise, take up thy bed, and walk." Instantly, the man was healed, took up his bed, and walked. That miracle occurred on the Sabbath, prompting the Jewish leaders to question the healed man about carrying his bed on a Sabbath, which they considered a violation of Jewish law. The man explained that the one who healed him instructed him to do so, but he didn't know who it was because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd. Later, Jesus found the man in the temple and told him, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." The man then informed the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had healed him.~