John 5:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

John 5:3 —

Old words in this verse

halt: — lame; or to limp, to waver.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Mark 3:1-4
And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand. …
Matthew 15:30
And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them:
Luke 7:22
Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
Zechariah 11:17
Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
Lamentations 3:26
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-16)

This miraculous cure is not recorded by any other of the evangelists, who confine themselves mostly to the miracles wrought in Galilee, but John relates those wrought at Jerusalem. Concerning this observe, I. The time when this cure was wrought: it was at a feast of the Jews, that is, the passover, for that was the most celebrated feast. Christ, though residing in Galilee, yet went up to Jerusalem…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

2-3. sheep market--The supplement should be (as in Margin) “sheep [gate],” mentioned in Ne 3:1, 32. Bethesda--that is, “house (place) of mercy,” from the cures wrought there. five porches--for shelter to the patients.