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The Pool of Bethesda

John 5:5

In 9 translations

BSB
One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
KJV
And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
WEB
A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
ASV
And a certain man was there, who had been thirty and eight years in his infirmity.
LSV
And there was a certain man there being in ailment thirty-eight years,
YLT
and there was a certain man there being in ailment thirty and eight years,
DBY
But there was a certain man there who had been suffering under his infirmity thirty and eight years.
DRC
And there was a certain man there, that had been eight and thirty years under his infirmity.
GNV
And a certaine man was there, which had bene diseased eight and thirtie yeeres.

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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)
  • In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, Westcott–Hort include καὶ (“and”); SBLGNT (2010), Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text do not include this wording.
  • In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles include αὐτοῦ (“himself”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text do not include this wording.
SBLGNT apparatus (2)

A comparison of published Greek editions. “Add” means after the SBLGNT wording; “omit” refers to that wording.

  • SBLGNT: τριάκοντα. Tregelles, Robinson–Pierpont read τριάκοντα; Westcott and Hort (1881), Nestle–Aland 28th edition add καὶ.
  • SBLGNT: αὐτοῦ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read αὐτοῦ; Robinson–Pierpont omit this wording.

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Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.

Original-language editions

SBLGNT
ἦν δέ τις ἄνθρωπος ἐκεῖ τριάκοντα ὀκτὼ ἔτη ἔχων ἐν τῇ ἀσθενείᾳ αὐτοῦ·
RP2018
Ἦν δέ τις ἄνθρωπος ἐκεῖ τριάκοντα ὀκτὼ ἔτη ἔχων ἐν τῇ ἀσθενείᾳ.
TR-Boyd
Ἦν δέ τις ἄνθρωπος ἐκεῖ τριακονταοκτὼ ἔτη ἔχων ἐν τῇ ἀσθενείᾳ.τριακονταοκτὼ ¦ τριάκοντα καὶ ὀκτὼ SCR
SCR1894
ην δε τις ανθρωπος εκει τριακοντα και οκτω ετη εχων εν τη ασθενεια

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◆ Bethesda pool healing

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Acts 3:2And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.
  • Luke 8:43including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.
  • Mark 9:21Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has this been with him?” “From childhood,” he said.
  • Acts 14:8In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.
  • Luke 13:16Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”
  • John 9:1Now as Jesus was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth,
  • Acts 9:33There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.
  • John 5:14Afterward, Jesus found the man at the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.”
  • Acts 4:22For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.
  • John 9:21But how he can now see or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.”

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