John 5:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. ”

• John 5:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The sheep-market - This might have been rendered the “sheep-gate,” or the gate through which the sheep were taken into the city for sacrifice. The marginal rendering is “gate,” and the word “mark...

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• John 5:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (1) Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep [market] a (a) pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue (b) Bethesda, having five porches. (1) There is no disease so old which Christ cannot heal. (a)...

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• John 5:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  John 5:1-9 a . The Pool of Bethzatha. If in John 5:1 we read the feast, Tabernacles is probably meant ( cf. John 7:2 ). The true text, however, seems to have a feast. Pentecost, Purim (in Ma...

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• John 5:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  at . in. Greek. en. App-104. by . upon, or at. Greek. epi. App-104. market, or gate . Compare Nehemiah 3:1 ; Nehemiah 3:32 ; Nehemiah 12:39 , and App-68. Joh 15:40. which is called. G...

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• John 5:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  2. There was in Jerusalem, at the sheep-market, a pool. The circumstance of the place is added, from which we learn that the miracle was not concealed or known to a few persons only; for the...

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• John 5:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. There Is - This is thought by some to be a proof that John wrote his Gospel...

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• John 5:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Now there is at Jerusalem, &c.— Some are of opinion from this passage, that Jerusalem was standing when St. John wrote his gospel; but others, on the strength of a different reading, controvert...

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• John 5:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. Now there is at Jerusalem, by the sheep [market]. The supplement here...

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• John 5:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Bethesda. Christ and the Sabbath 1-47. A miracle at the Pool of Bethesda on the Sabbath Day, and a controversy arising therefrom. This miracle may be regarded as a parable illustrating the deadly...

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• John 5:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Now there is at Jerusalem. — We have no certain knowledge of the time referred to in the last, nor of the place referred to in this, verse. For “sheep-market,” we should read with the margin, shee...

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• John 5:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 12 SABBATH CURE AT BETHESDA. “After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebr...

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• John 5:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Weakness Made Strength John 5:1-9 An interval of some months lies between the previous chapter and this, in which many of the incidents of our Lord's Galilean life took place. John does not tou...

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• John 5:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  It was at this time that the conflict between Christ and His enemies, which culminated in His Cross began. A miracle wrought on the Sabbath gave rise to this first outbreak. Throughout this chapter w...

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• John 5:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep-market, a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue, Bethesda, having five porches. (3) In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, wither...

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• John 5:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep [market] ,.... The word "market" is not in the text, and of such a market, no account is given in the Scripture, nor in the Jewish writings; and besides, in ou...

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• John 5:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. Ver. 2. Having five porches ] Built, belike, by some well-affected pers...

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• John 5:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Now there is at Jerusalem The Syriac seems to have read, ην, there was , as it is rendered in that version in the past time. Cyril, Chrysostom, and Theophylact favour this reading, as also does No...

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• John 5:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  AGAIN IN JERUSALEM: THE POOL OF BETHESDA (vs.1-15) Once more we find the Lord Jesus visiting Jerusalem, and as in Chapter 2:13 the feast is called "the Jews' Passover" rather than the Passover of...

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• John 5:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Cure at the Pool of Bethesda.       1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.   2 Now there is at J...

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• John 5:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  OLBGrk; We read in Scripture of the sheep gate in Jerusalem, Nehemiah 3:1 . There was also a market for sheep and other cattle, Deuteronomy 14:26 . Some therefore add market, others add...

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• John 5:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Healing of the Disabled Man at the Pool ( John 5:1-18 ). When John recounts an incident in the life of Jesus we must always ask what it is intended to illustrate, for he always has a purpose i...

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• John 5:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES “Up to the present time our Lord has offered Himself to typical representatives of the whole Jewish race at Jerusalem, in Judæa, in Samaria, and in Galilee, in such...

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• John 5:2 - Scofield Reference Notes

  market a pool Or, gate, ( Nehemiah 3:1 ); ( Nehemiah 12:39 ).

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• John 5:2 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  John 5:2-3 Scripture a Record of Human Sorrow I. There lay about the Pool of Bethesda a great multitude of impotent folk of blind, halt, and withered. This is a painful picture, such as we do not...

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• John 5:2 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 5:1-9 . 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 fi...

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• John 5:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 5:2 . Now there is at Jerusalem a pool, called Bethesda, which signifies a house of mercy, beneficence, or alms. The pool was situate at too great a distance from the temple to be a place for...

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• John 5:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

  After this there was a feast of the Jews The Pool of Bethesda, a type of favoured localities in a religious community in which the highest miraculous aid has not yet appeared The miraculous aid...

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• John 5:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Here commences the second division of the Gospel ( John 5:1 ) II. THE CONFLICT WITH THE CHOSEN PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM , GALILEE , AND JERUSALEM , TO THE DEATH...

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• John 5:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Sick Man of Bethesda. The health-giving waters:

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• John 5:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Isaiah 22:11 ; Isaiah 22:9 ; Nehemiah 12:39 ; Nehemiah 3:1

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• John 5:2 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Man Made Whole John 5:1-10 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Every footstep of the Lord Jesus Christ was one of mercy and of grace. The beautiful thing about Christ's healing and helping hand is, that He...

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• John 5:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  There is in Jerusalem — Hence it appears, that St. John wrote his Gospel before Jerusalem was destroyed: it is supposed about thirty years after the ascension. Having five porticos — Built for the...

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