John 5:7

John 5:7

5 Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.

6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”

7 The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.”

8 Jesus said to him, ^a“Rise, take up your bed and walk.”

9 And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And ^athat day was the Sabbath.

10 The Jews therefore said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath; ^ait is not lawful for you to carry your bed.”

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Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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When the water is troubled (otan taraxqh to udwr). Indefinite temporal clause with otan and the first aorist passive subjunctive of tarassw, old verb to agitate (Matthew 2:3). The popular belief was that, at each outflow of this intermittent spring, there was healing power in the water for the first one getting in.

To put me into the pool (ina balh me eiv thn kolumbhqran). Final use of ina and the second aorist active subjunctive of ballw, "that he throw me in" quickly before any one else. For this use of ballw see Mark 7:30; Luke 16:20.

But while I am coming (en w de erxomai). Temporal use of the relative, "in which time" (xronw or kairw understood). Egw (I) is emphatic.

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