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Yohanes 5:5
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Di situ ada seorang yang sudah tiga puluh delapan tahun lamanya sakit.
Maka adalah di sana seorang yang sakit sudah tiga puluh delapan tahun lamanya.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thirty: John 5:14, John 9:1, John 9:21, Mark 9:21, Luke 8:43, Luke 13:16, Acts 3:2, Acts 4:22, Acts 9:33, Acts 14:8
Reciprocal: Job 13:26 - makest Psalms 25:7 - the sins Mark 5:25 - twelve Luke 5:18 - General Luke 13:11 - eighteen
Cross-References
In the sweatte of thy face shalt thou eate thy breade, tyll thou be turned agayne into the ground, for out of it wast thou taken: For dust thou art, and into dust shalt thou be turned agayne.
And Seth lyued after he begat Enos eyght hundreth and seuen yeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.
And all the dayes of Seth were nine hundreth & twelue yeres, and he dyed.
And Enos lyued after he begate Kenan eyght hundreth & fiftie yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
And all the dayes of Enos were nine hundreth & fyue yeres, and he dyed.
Kenan lyued seuentie yeres, and begate Mahalaleel.
And all the dayes of Kenan were nine hundreth and ten yeres, and he dyed.
Henoch lyued sixtie and fiue yeres, & begate Methuselah.
And Henoch walked with God after he begate Methuselah three hundreth yeres, and begate sonnes & daughters.
Noah was fiue hundreth yere olde, & Noah begate Sem, Ham, & Iapheth.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And a certain man was there,.... At Bethesda's pool, in one of the five porches, or cloisters, that belonged to it:
which had an infirmity thirty and eight years; what his infirmity was, is not said; he was one of the weak, or impotent folk, for so he is called, John 5:7. Some think his distemper was the palsy, and though he had had this infirmity so many years, it is not certain that he had waited so long in this place for a cure; though it may be, for that he had attended some time, is clear from John 5:7. Nor indeed can it be known how long there had been such a preternatural motion in this pool, and such a miraculous virtue in the water; some have thought, that it began at the repairing of the sheep gate by Eliashib, in Nehemiah's time; so Tremellius and Junius, on Nehemiah 3:1; and others have thought, that it had been some few years before the birth of Christ, and about the time that this man was first taken with his disorder. Tertullian says u, that there was in Judea a medicinal lake, before Christ's time; and that the pool of Bethsaida (it should be Bethesda) was useful in curing the diseases of the Israelites; but ceased from yielding any benefit, when the name of the Lord was blasphemed by them, through their rage and fury, and continuance in it w; but in what year it began, and the precise time it ceased, he says not. The Persic version here adds, "and was reduced to such a state that he could not move".
u De Anima, c. 50. w Adv. Judaeos, c. 13.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
An infirmity - A weakness. We know not what his disease was. We know only that it disabled him from walking, and that it was of very long standing. It was doubtless regarded as incurable.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse John 5:5. Had an infirmity thirty and eight years. — St. Chrysostom conjectured that blindness was the infirmity of this person: what it was, the inspired writer does not say - probably it was a palsy: his case was deplorable - he was not able to go into the pool himself, and he had no one to help him; so that poverty and disease were here connected. The length of the time he had been afflicted makes the miracle of his cure the greater. There could have been no collusion in this case: as his affliction had lasted thirty-eight years, it must have been known to multitudes; therefore he could not be a person prepared for the occasion. All Christ's miracles have been wrought in such a way, and on such persons and occasions, as absolutely to preclude all possibility of the suspicion of imposture.