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John 1-7 (Translated) (view source)
Revision as of 07:06, November 3, 2009
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|Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
|Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
|In Jerusalem there is, by the Sheep Gate, a pool with five porticos, which is called Bethesda in Hebrew.
|In Jerusalem there is, by the Sheep Gate, a pool with five porticos, which is called Bethesda in Hebrew.
|Based on the descriptions
|Based on the descriptions in Nehemiah 3:1; 3:32; and 12:39, it is more likely that the adjective προβατικος references the Sheep "gate" rather than a sheep "market."
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|In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
|In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
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|In these porticos lay a great many people who were sick, blind, crippled and withered, waiting for the stirring of the water.
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|For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
|For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
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|[''For an angel would periodically go down into the pool and agitate the water; whoever was the first to step into the water after it became agitated would be healed of whatever affliction he had.'']
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|This verse does not appear in most of the oldest copies of John: P66, P75, Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, Bezae Cantabrigiensis, nor in the original text of Ephraemi Rescriptus. It does appear in Alexandrinus, and was added back into Ephraemi Rescriptus by a later corrector, as well as appearing in much of the Byzantine family. I have included it here in brackets and italics as I consider its authenticity doubtful, but possible.
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