John 5:6

New Revised Standard

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be made well?"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When Jesus saw him lying there and realized he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to get well?”

King James Version (1611)
When Iesus saw him lie, & knew that hee had beene now a long time in that case, he sayth vnto him, Wilt thou be made whole?

King James Version
When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?

English Standard Version
When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?"

New American Standard Bible
Jesus, upon seeing this man lying there and knowing that he had already been in that condition for a long time, said to him, "Do you want to get well?"

New Century Version
When Jesus saw the man and knew that he had been sick for such a long time, Jesus asked him, "Do you want to be well?"

Amplified Bible
When Jesus noticed him lying there [helpless], knowing that he had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, "Do you want to get well?"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, "Do you wish to get well?"

Legacy Standard Bible
When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been sick a long time, He *said to him, "Do you wish to get well?"

Berean Standard Bible
When Jesus saw him lying there and realized that he had spent a long time in this condition, He asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

Contemporary English Version
When Jesus saw the man and realized that he had been crippled for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be healed?"

Complete Jewish Bible
Yeshua, seeing this man and knowing that he had been there a long time, said to him, "Do you want to be healed?"

Darby Translation
Jesus seeing this [man] lying [there], and knowing that he was [in that state] now a great length of time, says to him, Wouldest thou become well?

Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been sick for a very long time. So he asked him, "Do you want to be well?"

Geneva Bible (1587)
When Iesus sawe him lie, and knew that he nowe long time had bene diseased, he saide vnto him, Wilt thou be made whole?

George Lamsa Translation
Jesus saw this man lying down, and he knew that he had been waiting for a long time; so he said to him, Do you wish to be healed?

Good News Translation
Jesus saw him lying there, and he knew that the man had been sick for such a long time; so he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

Lexham English Bible
Jesus, when he saw this one lying there and knew that he had been sick a long time already, said to him, "Do you want to become well?"

Literal Translation
Seeing him lying, and knowing that he had already spent much time, Jesus said to him, Do you desire to become well?

American Standard Version
When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wouldest thou be made whole?

Bible in Basic English
When Jesus saw him there on the floor it was clear to him that he had been now a long time in that condition, and so he said to the man, Is it your desire to get well?

Hebrew Names Version
When Yeshua saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?"

International Standard Version
When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to get well?"

Etheridge Translation
Jeshu saw this (man) as he lay, and knew that for a long time he had (been thus), and said to him, Art thou willing to be healed ?

Murdock Translation
Jesus saw him lying, and knew that [fn] had been a long time upon him, and said to him: Desirest thou to be healed?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
When Iesus sawe hym lye, & knewe that he nowe long tyme had ben diseased, he sayth vnto hym: Wylt thou be made whole?

English Revised Version
When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wouldest thou be made whole?

World English Bible
When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?"

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Jesus seeing him lie, and knowing that he had now been diseased a long time, saith to him, Desirest thou to be made whole?

Weymouth's New Testament
Jesus saw him lying there, and knowing that he had been a long time in that condition, He asked him, "Do you wish to have health and strength?"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne Jhesus hadde seyn hym liggynge, and hadde knowun, that he hadde myche tyme, he seith to hym, Wolt thou be maad hool?

Update Bible Version
When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that he had been [sick] now a long time, he says to him, Do you want to be made whole?

Webster's Bible Translation
When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that he had been now a long time [in that case], he saith to him, Wilt thou be healed?

New English Translation
When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, "Do you want to become well?"

New King James Version
When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, "Do you want to be made well?"

New Living Translation
When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, "Would you like to get well?"

New Life Bible
Jesus saw him lying there and knew the man had been sick a long time. Jesus said to him, "Would you like to be healed?"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Jesus, seeing, this one, lying, and taking note that now, a long time, had he continued, saith unto him - Desirest thou to be made, well?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Him when Jesus had seen lying, and knew that he had been now a long time, he saith to him: Wilt thou be made whole?

Revised Standard Version
When Jesus saw him and knew that he had been lying there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?"

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
When Iesus sawe him lye and knewe that he now longe tyme had bene diseased he sayde vnto him. Wilt thou be made whoale?

Young's Literal Translation
him Jesus having seen lying, and having known that he is already a long time, he saith to him, `Dost thou wish to become whole?'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whan Iesus sawe him lye, & knewe that he had lyen so longe, he saide vnto him: Wilt thou be made whole?

Mace New Testament (1729)
Jesus seeing him lie there, and knowing that he had been sick a long time, said to him, will you be cured?

Simplified Cowboy Version
Someone told Jesus about the man. Jesus went over to him and asked the man, "How would you like to be made well?"

Contextual Overview

¹ After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. ³ In these lay many invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be made well?" The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me." Jesus said to him, "Stand up, take your mat and walk." At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was a sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your mat." But he answered them, "The man who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.'" They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take it up and walk'?" Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had disappeared in the crowd that was there. Later Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "See, you have been made well! Do not sin any more, so that nothing worse happens to you." The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. Therefore the Jews started persecuting Jesus, because he was doing such things on the sabbath. But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, and I also am working." For this reason the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he was not only breaking the sabbath, but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God. Jesus said to them, "Very truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing; and he will show him greater works than these, so that you will be astonished. Indeed, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes. The Father judges no one but has given all judgment to the Son, so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. Very truly, I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and does not come under judgment, but has passed from death to life. "Very truly, I tell you, the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself; and he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. Do not be astonished at this; for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and will come out—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. "I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just, because I seek to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me. "If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. There is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that his testimony to me is true. You sent messengers to John, and he testified to the truth. Not that I accept such human testimony, but I say these things so that you may be saved. He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. But I have a testimony greater than John's. The works that the Father has given me to complete, the very works that I am doing, testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me. And the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen his form, and you do not have his word abiding in you, because you do not believe him whom he has sent. "You search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that testify on my behalf. ⁴ Yet you refuse to come to me to have life. I do not accept glory from human beings. But I know that you do not have the love of God in you. I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; if another comes in his own name, you will accept him. How can you believe when you accept glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the one who alone is God? Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?" ⁵ One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. ⁶ When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be made well?" ⁷ The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me." ⁸ Jesus said to him, "Stand up, take your mat and walk." ⁹ At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was a sabbath. ¹⁰ So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your mat."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and knew: John 21:17, Psalms 142:3, Hebrews 4:13, Hebrews 4:15

Wilt: Isaiah 65:1, Jeremiah 13:27, Luke 18:41

Reciprocal: Mark 5:25 - twelve Mark 9:21 - How Luke 5:18 - General Luke 8:43 - twelve Luke 13:11 - eighteen Acts 3:4 - Look

Cross-References

Genesis 4:26
To Seth also a son was born, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to invoke the name of the Lord .

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When Jesus saw him lie,.... In such a helpless condition:

and knew that he had been now a long time, [in that case], or "in his disease", as the Ethiopic version supplies; even seven years before Christ was born; which is a proof of his omniscience: the words may be literally rendered, as they are in the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions, "that he had had much time"; or as the Arabic version, "that he had had many years"; that is had lived many years, and was now an old man; he had his disorder eight and thirty years, and which seems from John 5:14 to have arisen from some sin of his, from a vicious course of living, perhaps intemperance; so that he might be a middle aged man, when this distemper first seized him, and therefore must be now stricken in years:

he saith unto him, wilt thou be made whole? which question is put, not as if it was a doubt, whether he was desirous of it, or not; for to what purpose did he lie and wait there else? but partly to raise in the man an expectation of a cure, and attention in the people to it: and it may be his sense and meaning is, wilt thou be made whole on this day, which was the sabbath; or hast thou faith that thou shall be made whole in this way, or by me?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 5:6. Wilt thou be made whole? — Christ, by asking this question, designed to excite in this person faith, hope, and a greater desire of being healed. He wished him to reflect on his miserable state, that he might be the better prepared to receive a cure, and to value it when it came. Addresses of this kind are always proper from the preachers of the Gospel, that the hearts, as well of hardened as of desponding sinners, may be stirred up to desire and expect salvation. Do you wish to be healed? Do you know that you are under the power of a most inveterate and dangerous disease? If so, there is a remedy - have immediate recourse to the physician. Questions of this kind are frequently asked in the secret of our souls, by the inspirations of God's Spirit. Happy those who pay attention to them, and give right answers.