John 5:6

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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?”

Cross References

Luke 18:41

“What do you want me to do for you?” And he replied, “Lord, I want to receive my sight.”

John 21:17

Then Jesus asked him a third time, “Simon, son of John, do you [truly] love me?” Peter was sad because Jesus had asked him a third time, “Do you [even] love me?” So, he said to Jesus, “Lord, you know all things. You [surely] know that I love you.” Jesus replied to him, “[Then] feed my sheep.

John 5:5

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

John 5:7

The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I do not have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but [just] when I am about to enter [it] someone else goes down [into the water] before me.”

Hebrews 4:13

And no created being is hidden from God’s sight, but everything is laid bare and is openly visible to the eyes of God, to whom we must give account.

Hebrews 4:15

For we do not have a head priest who is incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but One [i.e., Jesus] who has been tempted in every way that we have, and yet without sinning.