John 5:1-11
1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. 5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10 and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”
11 But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”
We’re in and of ourselves V. 1-5
When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” John 5:6
Question: Do you get well? V. 6
“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” John 5:7
Do you want to get ?
Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” John 5:8
Command: Believe and . V. 8
Do you want to get ?
Get up! Pick up your mat and walk. V. 8
Questions for Discipleship group and/or personal study:
Opener:
- What is a funny excuse that you have used or heard someone use?
Go to the Source:
- Read John 5:1-11
- How do you picture the setting of this pool? What do you see? Smell? Hear? What is the atmosphere like?
- Are you uncomfortable in settings like this? Why or why not?
- Why do you think Jesus asked the unusual question in v. 6?
Live it out:
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