João 5

João 5

Calvin - “This sick man does what we nearly all do. He limits God’s help to his own ideas and does not dare promise himself more than he conceives in his mind.” Frédéric Louis Godet comments on the man's reply to Jesus - The answer of the sick man does not imply the authenticity of Jn 5:4, nor even necessarily that of the end of Jn 5:3. It is sufficiently explained by the fact, known or easy to understand, of the intermittent ebullition (the act, process, or state of boiling or bubbling up) of the spring. We see by the words: I have no one, that he was solitary and poor. (John 5 Commentary) Colin Kruse on another steps down before me - Apparently, the belief was that only the first person into the waters after they were ‘stirred’ would be healed. Later tradition, reflected in the additions to the text in Jn 5:3–4, attributed the stirring of the waters to an angel, but it is more likely to have been caused by the movement of subterranean water. That so many people were at the pool waiting for the stirring of the waters suggests there were occasions when people had been healed at Bethesda....In any case, the man appears to have been ignorant of the miracles Jesus had performed in Jerusalem (Jn 2:23; 3:1–2) and showed no sign of faith that Jesus could heal him. (Borrow The Gospel according to John : an introduction and commentary) Spurgeon's Exposition - Shuffling along, as best I may, to the water’s edge, —Then, of course, the curative miracle is wrought, and the curative power of the water is gone until another season, when the angel troubles it again. Stirred up (disturbed) (5015) tarasso literally means to shake back and forth and therefore to agitate and stir up (like the pool in John 5:4,7, Lxx = Ezek 32:2, 13, Isa 51:15). To shake together, stir up, disturb, unsettle, throw into disorder (Lxx = Ps 46; 2Sa 22:8 = of earth shaking). Most of the NT uses of tarasso are figurative and describe the state of one's mind as stirred up, agitated or experiencing inward commotion. Tarasso - 18v - disturbed(1), disturbing(2), stirred(3), stirring(1), terrified(2), troubled(9). Matt. 2:3; Matt. 14:26; Mk. 6:50; Lk. 1:12; Lk. 24:38; Jn. 5:4; Jn. 5:7; Jn. 11:33; Jn. 12:27; Jn. 13:21; Jn. 14:1; Jn. 14:27; Acts 15:24; Acts 17:8; Acts 17:13; Gal. 1:7; Gal. 5:10; 1 Pet. 3:14 John 5:8 Jesus said to him, "Get up, pick up your pallet and walk." BGT John 5:8 λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς· ἔγειρε ἆρον τὸν κράβαττόν σου καὶ περιπάτει. KJV John 5:8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. NET John 5:8 Jesus said to him, "Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk." CSB John 5:8 "Get up," Jesus told him, "pick up your mat and walk!" ESV John 5:8 Jesus said to him, "Get up, take up your bed, and walk." NIV John 5:8 Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." NLT John 5:8 Jesus told him, "Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!" Mt 9:6 Mk 2:11 Lu 5:24 Ac 9:34 John 5 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries Related Passages: Matthew 9:6+ “But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”–then He said to the paralytic, “Get up, pick up your bed and go home.” 7 And he got up and went home. 8 But when the crowds saw this, they were awestruck, and glorified God, who had given such authority to men. Mark 2:9-11+ “Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven’; or to say, ‘Get up, and pick up your pallet and walk’? 10 “But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”–He *said to the paralytic, 11 “I say to you, get up, pick up your pallet and go home.”12 And he got up and immediately picked up the pallet and went out in the sight of everyone, so that they were all amazed and were glorifying God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this.” Mark 3:5+ After looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He *said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored. Luke 5:24+ “But, so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,”–He said to the paralytic–“I say to you, get up, and pick up your stretcher and go home.” 25 Immediately he got up before them, and picked up what he had been lying on, and went home glorifying God. 26 They were all struck with astonishment and began glorifying God; and they were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen remarkable things today.” Acts 9:34+ Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; get up and make your bed.” Immediately he got up. 35 And all who lived at Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord (cf Jn 20:30,31). CHRIST THE CREATOR COMMANDS Jesus completely ignores the pool and its supposed healing powers. Jesus said to him, "Get up (egeiro), pick up (airo) your pallet (krabattos) and walk (peripateo) - Pick up is a command in the aorist imperative ("Just do it!") Get up and walk are commands in the present imperative and all three commands would require supernatural power to obey, power provided by the Holy Spirit. Notice Jesus does not even address the issue of the stirring water in the pool. He simply gives the man three commands. He heals the man with His spoken word (the same word that created the universe in Heb 11:3 and now upholds it Heb 1:3)!