John 5:3

1 Kings 13:4; James 5:7; Lamentations 3:26; Luke 7:22; Mark 3:1-4; Matthew 15:30; Proverbs 8:34; Romans 8:25; Zechariah 11:17

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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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, howev...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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Scofield Reference Notes

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
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³ In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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John Trapp Complete Commentary

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L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

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