John 5:5
New International Version
One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

New Living Translation
One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years.

English Standard Version
One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

Berean Standard Bible
One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

Berean Literal Bible
And a certain man was there, himself being thirty and eight years in infirmity.

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

New King James Version
Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.

New American Standard Bible
Now a man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

NASB 1995
A man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

NASB 1977
And a certain man was there, who had been thirty-eight years in his sickness.

Legacy Standard Bible
And a man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

Amplified Bible
There was a certain man there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

Christian Standard Bible
One man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
One man was there who had been sick for 38 years.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But a certain man was there who had been diseased for thirty eight years.

Contemporary English Version
Beside the pool was a man who had been sick for 38 years.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there was a certain man there, that had been eight and thirty years under his infirmity.

English Revised Version
And a certain man was there, which had been thirty and eight years in his infirmity.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
One man, who had been sick for 38 years, was lying there.

Good News Translation
A man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

International Standard Version
One particular man was there who had been ill for 38 years.

Literal Standard Version
And there was a certain man there being in ailment thirty-eight years,

Majority Standard Bible
One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

New American Bible
One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

NET Bible
Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

New Revised Standard Version
One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

New Heart English Bible
A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

Webster's Bible Translation
And a certain man was there, who had an infirmity thirty and eight years.

Weymouth New Testament
And there was one man there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

World English Bible
A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

Young's Literal Translation
and there was a certain man there being in ailment thirty and eight years,

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Context
The Pool of Bethesda
5 One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6When Jesus saw him lying there and realized that he had spent a long time in this condition, He asked him, “Do you want to get well?”…

Cross References
John 5:4
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.

John 5:6
When Jesus saw him lying there and realized that he had spent a long time in this condition, He asked him, "Do you want to get well?"


Treasury of Scripture

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

thirty.

John 5:14
Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

John 9:1,21
And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth…

Mark 9:21
And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.

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Ailment Eight Ill Infirmity Invalid Sick Suffering Thirty Thirty-Eight
John 5
1. Jesus on the Sabbath day cures him who was diseased thirty-eight years.
10. The Jews therefore object, and persecute him for it.
17. He answers for himself, and reproves them, showing by the testimony of his Father,
31. of John,
36. of his works,
39. and of the Scriptures, who he is.














(5) Thirty and eight years.--The period expresses, not his age on the one hand, nor the time of his being at Bethesda on the other, but the time during which he had suffered from the infirmity. Helpless and friendless, having spent half the lot of human life in that condition, he appeals without an uttered word to the Mercy which is present in the House of Mercy; and to him alone of those He healed does Christ of His own accord address the first question. The infirmity was in some way connected with youthful sin (John 5:14), and the sufferer and his history would be well known to those at Jerusalem. The exact knowledge of the writer tells us that for thirty-eight years he had paid sin's. penalty.

Verse 5. - And a certain man was there, who had been thirty and eight years in his infirmity. He had not lost all his powers - he crawled probably from some near home to the healing well; but for thirty-eight years be had been dragging out his impotent existence. The length implies the inveteracy of the disease. Hengstenberg, Wordsworth, Westcott (in part), imply a marked correspondence between these thirty-eight years and the similar period of time during which Israel was compelled to wander in the wilderness. It is not said how long the man had lain in the five porches waiting listlessly for healing, but that the malady was of old standing, and to all human appearance incurable. Thoma finds allegorical meaning in "Bethesda" - a synonym of the metropolls, and keeps up a series of comparisons with Acts 3.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
One
τις (tis)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5100: Any one, some one, a certain one or thing. An enclitic indefinite pronoun; some or any person or object.

man
ἄνθρωπος (anthrōpos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 444: A man, one of the human race. From aner and ops; man-faced, i.e. A human being.

there
ἐκεῖ (ekei)
Adverb
Strong's 1563: (a) there, yonder, in that place, (b) thither, there. Of uncertain affinity; there; by extension, thither.

had been
ἔχων (echōn)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2192: To have, hold, possess. Including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o; a primary verb; to hold.

[an] invalid
ἀσθενείᾳ (astheneia)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 769: From asthenes; feebleness; by implication, malady; morally, frailty.

[for] thirty-eight
τριάκοντα (triakonta)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 5144: Thirty. The decade of treis; thirty.

years.
ἔτη (etē)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 2094: A year. Apparently a primary word; a year.


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