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John 5:1

Some time after this the feast of the Jews being come, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Feasts;   Jerusalem;   Jesus, the Christ;   Miracles;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Home;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Feasts, the Anniversary;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Purim;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John, gospel of;   Month;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Miracle;   Sabbath;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Festivals, Religious;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gospels;   Jesus Christ;   Purim;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Diseases;   Hour;   John, the Gospel of;   Pilgrimage;   Sabbath;   Witness, Martyr;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronology of the New Testament;   Jesus Christ;   John, Gospel of;   Purim;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Announcements of Death;   Dates (2);   Feasts;   Herod ;   Jews;   Ministry;   Naphtali ;   Obedience (2);   Pilgrim (2);   Possession;   Purim;   Sinners;   Time;   Water (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Pur, Purim;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Passover;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Jesus christ;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chronology of the New Testament;   Jesus Christ (Part 1 of 2);   Johannine Theology, the;   John the Baptist;   Purim;   Text and Manuscripts of the New Testament;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Megillot, the Five;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for February 1;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
King James Version (1611)
After this there was a feast of the Iewes, and Iesus went vp to Hierusalem.
King James Version
After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
English Standard Version
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
New American Standard Bible
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
New Century Version
Later Jesus went to Jerusalem for a special feast.
Amplified Bible
Later on there was a Jewish feast (festival), and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Legacy Standard Bible
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Berean Standard Bible
Some time later there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Contemporary English Version
Later, Jesus went to Jerusalem for another Jewish festival.
Complete Jewish Bible
After this, there was a Judean festival; and Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim.
Darby Translation
After these things was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Easy-to-Read Version
Later, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a special Jewish festival.
Geneva Bible (1587)
After that, there was a feast of the Iewes, and Iesus went vp to Hierusalem.
George Lamsa Translation
AFTER these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Good News Translation
After this, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a religious festival.
Lexham English Bible
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Literal Translation
After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
American Standard Version
After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Bible in Basic English
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Hebrew Names Version
After these things, there was a feast of the Yehudim, and Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim.
International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
AFTER these there was a feast of the Jihudoyee, and Jeshu went up to Urishlem.
Murdock Translation
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
After this, was there a feast day of the Iewes, and Iesus went vp to Hierusalem.
English Revised Version
After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
World English Bible
After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Weymouth's New Testament
After this there was a Festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Aftir these thingis ther was a feeste dai of Jewis, and Jhesus wente vp to Jerusalem.
Update Bible Version
After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Webster's Bible Translation
After this there was a feast of the Jews: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
New English Translation
After this there was a Jewish feast, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
New King James Version
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
New Living Translation
Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days.
New Life Bible
Some time later, there was a religious gathering of the Jews. Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
New Revised Standard
After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
After these things, was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up unto Jerusalem.
Douay-Rheims Bible
After these things was a festival day of the Jews: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Revised Standard Version
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
After that ther was a feast of the Iewes and Iesus went vp to Ierusalem.
Young's Literal Translation
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Afterwarde, there was a feast of the Iewes, and Iesus wente vpto Ierusalem.
THE MESSAGE
Soon another Feast came around and Jesus was back in Jerusalem. Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there was a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda, with five alcoves. Hundreds of sick people—blind, crippled, paralyzed—were in these alcoves. One man had been an invalid there for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him stretched out by the pool and knew how long he had been there, he said, "Do you want to get well?"
Simplified Cowboy Version
Later on, Jesus went back to Jerusalem for another Jewish festival.

Contextual Overview

1 Some time after this the feast of the Jews being come, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 now there was at Jerusalem by the sheep-gate a bath, called in Hebrew, Bethesda, which had five portico's. 3 where a great number of infirm, blind, lame, and paralytic people lay waiting for the moving of the water: 4 (for a messenger went down at certain times into the pool, and agitated the water: the first then that stepped in after this commotion of the water, was cured of whatever disease he had.) 5 now a certain man was there, who had been sick eight and thirty years. 6 Jesus seeing him lie there, and knowing that he had been sick a long time, said to him, will you be cured? 7 the sick man answered him, sir, I have nobody to put me into the pool when the water has been agitated: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. 8 rise, said Jesus to him, take up thy bed, and go your way. 9 and immediately the man was healed, and took up his bed, and went his way: but that day being the sabbath, 10 the Jews said to him that was cured, it is the sabbath-day; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

John 2:13, Exodus 23:14-17, Exodus 34:23, Leviticus 23:2-4, Deuteronomy 16:16, Matthew 3:15, Galatians 4:4

Reciprocal: Judges 21:19 - a feast Luke 19:26 - That unto John 6:4 - General John 11:55 - passover

Cross-References

Matthew 1:1
The History of the life of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
1 Corinthians 11:7
A man ought not to be veil'd: he has the honour of being invested with authority from God, and may glory in his priority to the woman.
2 Corinthians 3:18
but as we lay aside the veil, the divine light gradually informs the mind, according as we attend to that spiritual sense, which points out the Lord.
Ephesians 4:24
after the image of God, in justice, sanctity, and truth.
Colossians 3:10
improv'd by knowledge into a resemblance of him, who made this change:
Hebrews 1:3
who being the radiation of his glory, and the imprest image of his substance, and governing all things by his powerful command, after having himself made expiation for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the divine majesty in the highest heavens.
Hebrews 12:9
when our natural parents corrected us, we gave them reverence: is it not much more reasonable to be in subjection to the father of spirits, in order to have life?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

After this there was a feast of the Jews,.... After Christ had been in Samaria, which was four months ago, John 4:35, and had been in Galilee for that time, and had cured the nobleman's son, and had done other mighty works, the time came on for one of the three festivals of the Jews; either the feast of Pentecost, as some think; or as others, the feast of tabernacles; or rather, the feast of the passover, so called, in John 4:45 since John is very particular, in giving an account of the several passovers, in Christ's ministry:

and Jesus went up to Jerusalem; according to the law of God, which obliged all the males to appear there at that time; and to show his compliance with it, and obedience to it, whom it became to fulfil all righteousness; and this he did also, that he might have an opportunity of discoursing, and doing his miracles before all the people, which came at this time, from the several parts of the land.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A feast - Probably the Passover, though it is not certain. There were two other feasts - the Pentecost and the Feast of Tabernacles - at which all the males were required to be present, and it might have been one of them. It is of no consequence, however, which of them is intended.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER V.

The man who had been diseased thirty-eight years healed on

the Sabbath day, 1-9.

The Jews cavil, persecute Christ, and seek to kill him, because

he had done this cure on the Sabbath, 10-16.

Our Lord vindicates his conduct, and shows, from the testimony

of the Father, the Scriptures, John the Baptist, and his own

works, that he came from God, to be the light and salvation of

the world, 17-39.

He reproves the Jews for their obstinacy, 40;

hatred to God, 41, 42;

pride, 43, 44;

and disbelief of their own law, 45-47.

NOTES ON CHAP. V.

Verse John 5:1. A feast — This is generally supposed, by the best critics, to have been the feast of the passover, which was the most eminent feast among the Jews. In several excellent MSS. the article is added, η εορτη, THE feast, the grand, the principal festival. Petavius supposes that the feast of Purim, or lots, is here meant; and one MS. reads η σκηνοπηγια, the feast of Tabernacles. Several of the primitive fathers believe Pentecost to be intended; and they are followed by many of the moderns, because, in John 7:2, mention is made of the feast of Tabernacles, which followed Pentecost, and was about the latter end of our September; and, in John 10:22, mention is made of the feast of Dedication, which was held about the latter end of November. See Bp. Pearce. See John 10:22.

Calmet, however, argues that there is no other feast with which all the circumstances marked here so well agree as with the passover; and Bp. Newcome, who is of Calmet's opinion, thinks Bp. Pearce's argument concerning the succession of the feasts to be inconclusive; because it is assumed, not proved, that the three feasts which he mentions above must have happened in the same year. See much on the same subject in Bp. Newcome's notes to his Harmony, p. 15, c.

Lightfoot has observed, that the other evangelists speak very sparingly of our Lord's acts in Judea. They mention nothing of the passovers, from our Lord's baptism till his death, excepting the very last: but John points at them all. The first he speaks of, John 2:13 the third, John 6:4; the fourth, John 13:1; and the second in this place: for although he does not call it the passover, but a feast in general, yet the circumstances agree best with this feast; and our Lord's words, John 4:35, seem to cast light on this subject. See the note there.


 
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