John 5:5 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁵ And a certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years [Note: He was probably a crippled person].

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ There was a certain man there who had suffered with a deep-seated and lingering disorder for thirty-eight years.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And a certain man was there, who had been thirty and eight years in his infirmity.

Common English Bible

⁵ A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And there was a certain man in that place, having been in his infirmity for thirty-eight years.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ And there was a certain man there, that had been eight and thirty years under his infirmity.

John 5:5 Cross References

Mark 9:21

Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he answered, “Since he was a small child.

Luke 13:16

So, should not this woman, being a daughter [i.e., descendant] of Abraham, whom Satan has bound [with this disease] for eighteen years, have been released from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”

Luke 8:43

Then a woman, who had been bleeding for twelve years, and who had spent all her income on doctors without being healed by any of them,

John 5:14

Later on Jesus found the man in the Temple, and said to him, “Look, you have been made well; stop sinning or else something worse [i.e., than the handicap you had] will happen to you.”

John 5:4

For an angel of the Lord came down to the pool [from heaven] at certain times and stirred up the water. Then the first person to enter the pool after the water became choppy was healed from whatever disease he had.”

John 5:6

When Jesus saw him lying [there by the pool], and knew that he had been [in that condition] a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to get well?”

John 9:1

As Jesus was walking along He saw a man [who had been] blind from birth.

John 9:21

But as to how it is that he can now see, we do not know; and we do not know who restored his sight [either]. Ask him, for he is old enough and can answer for himself.”

Acts 14:8

At Lystra they met a certain man sitting [on the street] who had a crippling handicap in his feet which he had suffered since birth. [It was so severe] he was never able to walk.

Acts 3:2

[On their way] they met a certain man who had been crippled from birth. Every day he had been carried [by friends] and placed at the “Beautiful Gate” [as it was called] of the Temple [enclosure] where he begged for money from those entering the Temple.

Acts 4:22

Now the man who was healed was over forty years old.

Acts 9:33

And there he found a certain man named Aeneas who had been [confined to his] bed, paralyzed for eight years.