Title: The Walking Paraplegic
Text: John 5:1-17
Author: Marvin Patterson
A little boy opened the big and old family Bible with fascination, and looked at the
old pages as he turned them. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible, and he
picked it up and looked at it closely. It was an old leaf from a tree that had been
pressed in between the pages.
"Momma, look what I found," the boy called out.
"What have you got there, dear?" his mother asked.
With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered: "I think it's Adam's
suit!"
Introduction:
Although opposition to Jesus smoldered beneath the surface (e.g., 2:13-20), the story of
Jesus' healing at the Pool of Bethesda highlights the beginning of open hostility toward
Him in Jerusalem in the southern parts of Palestine. The passage may be divided into 3
parts: 1) the miracle performed (vv. 1-9); 2) the Master persecuted (vv. 10-16); and 3)
the murder planned (vv. 16-18).
John MacArthur Jr., ed., The MacArthur Study Bible, electronic ed. (Nashville, TN: Word
Pub., 1997), 1586.
Body:
1-The Request
5 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Jesus is attending this festival or Holy Day, and He is getting ready to perform another
miracle! He is looking for those who are hurting, and maybe you are here this morning
hurting, Jesus can help you just as he did this man in our passage this morning!
Jesus has just healed the Nobleman's son, and now he leaves Cana and starts south
towards Jerusalem.
Three feasts required all Jewish males to come to Jerusalem: (1) the Feast of Passover
and Unleavened Bread, (2) the Feast of Weeks (also called Pentecost), and (3) the Feast
of Tabernacles.-Life Application Bible Notes
This is the only feast that we are not told which one it was when Jesus does this miracle!
The name of the pool was Bethesda which means "house of olives" or "ho ...
Text: John 5:1-17
Author: Marvin Patterson
A little boy opened the big and old family Bible with fascination, and looked at the
old pages as he turned them. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible, and he
picked it up and looked at it closely. It was an old leaf from a tree that had been
pressed in between the pages.
"Momma, look what I found," the boy called out.
"What have you got there, dear?" his mother asked.
With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered: "I think it's Adam's
suit!"
Introduction:
Although opposition to Jesus smoldered beneath the surface (e.g., 2:13-20), the story of
Jesus' healing at the Pool of Bethesda highlights the beginning of open hostility toward
Him in Jerusalem in the southern parts of Palestine. The passage may be divided into 3
parts: 1) the miracle performed (vv. 1-9); 2) the Master persecuted (vv. 10-16); and 3)
the murder planned (vv. 16-18).
John MacArthur Jr., ed., The MacArthur Study Bible, electronic ed. (Nashville, TN: Word
Pub., 1997), 1586.
Body:
1-The Request
5 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Jesus is attending this festival or Holy Day, and He is getting ready to perform another
miracle! He is looking for those who are hurting, and maybe you are here this morning
hurting, Jesus can help you just as he did this man in our passage this morning!
Jesus has just healed the Nobleman's son, and now he leaves Cana and starts south
towards Jerusalem.
Three feasts required all Jewish males to come to Jerusalem: (1) the Feast of Passover
and Unleavened Bread, (2) the Feast of Weeks (also called Pentecost), and (3) the Feast
of Tabernacles.-Life Application Bible Notes
This is the only feast that we are not told which one it was when Jesus does this miracle!
The name of the pool was Bethesda which means "house of olives" or "ho ...
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