Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
saw him lie, and knew, etc.—As He doubtless visited the spot just to perform this cure, so He knows where to find His patient, and the whole previous history of his case (John 2:25).
Wilt thou be made whole?—Could anyone doubt that a sick man would like to be made whole, or that the patients came thither, and this man had returned again and again, just in hope of a cure? But our Lord asked the question. (1) To fasten attention upon Himself; (2) By making him detail his case to deepen in him the feeling of entire helplessness; (3) By so singular a question to beget in his desponding heart the hope of a cure. (Compare Mark 10:51).
thirty and eight years—but not all that time at the pool. This was probably the most pitiable of all the cases, and therefore selected.
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