John 5:6
New International Version
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?”

New Living Translation
When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?”

English Standard Version
When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”

Berean Standard Bible
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?”

Berean Literal Bible
Jesus, having seen him lying and having known that he has been a long time already, says to him, "Do you desire to become well?"

King James Bible
When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?

New King James Version
When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”

New American Standard Bible
Jesus, upon seeing this man lying there and knowing that he had already been in that condition for a long time, said to him, “Do you want to get well?”

NASB 1995
When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, “Do you wish to get well?”

NASB 1977
When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, “Do you wish to get well?”

Legacy Standard Bible
When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been sick a long time, He said to him, “Do you wish to get well?”

Amplified Bible
When Jesus noticed him lying there [helpless], knowing that he had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to get well?”

Christian Standard Bible
When Jesus saw him lying there and realized he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to get well? ”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When Jesus saw him lying there and knew he had already been there a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to get well?"”

American Standard Version
When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wouldest thou be made whole?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Yeshua saw this man lying, and he knew that he had been so for a long time, and he said to him: “Do you want to be cured?”

Contemporary English Version
When Jesus saw the man and realized that he had been crippled for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be healed?"

Douay-Rheims Bible
Him when Jesus had seen lying, and knew that he had been now a long time, he saith to him: Wilt thou be made whole?

English Revised Version
When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wouldest thou be made whole?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Jesus saw the man lying there and knew that he had been sick for a long time. So Jesus asked the man, "Would you like to get well?"

Good News Translation
Jesus saw him lying there, and he knew that the man had been sick for such a long time; so he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

International Standard Version
When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

Literal Standard Version
him Jesus having seen lying, and having known that he is already a long time, He says to him, “Do you wish to become whole?”

Majority Standard Bible
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?”

New American Bible
When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be well?”

NET Bible
When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, "Do you want to become well?"

New Revised Standard Version
When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”

New Heart English Bible
When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?"

Webster's Bible Translation
When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith to him, Wilt thou be healed?

Weymouth New Testament
Jesus saw him lying there, and knowing that he had been a long time in that condition, He asked him, "Do you wish to have health and strength?"

World English Bible
When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to be made well?”

Young's Literal Translation
him Jesus having seen lying, and having known that he is already a long time, he saith to him, 'Dost thou wish to become whole?'

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Context
The Pool of Bethesda
5One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 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?” 7“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am on my way, someone else goes in before me.”…

Cross References
John 5:5
One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

John 5:7
"Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am on my way, someone else goes in before me."


Treasury of Scripture

When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he said to him, Will you be made whole?

and knew.

John 21:17
He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

Psalm 142:3
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

Hebrews 4:13,15
Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do…

Wilt.

Isaiah 65:1
I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?

Luke 18:41
Saying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight.

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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.














(6) And now Jesus sees him lying there among the throng of sufferers, and every ache of every limb, and. every sorrow of every heart told of the perfection of life marred by the curse of sin; but this man's own sin had left its mark upon him, which men may read and condemn, though within the whited fairness of their own outer deeds, the soul's life was by sin palsied to its very core. But he hears, in tones that went to the heart as he listened to them, the strange question, stranger indeed than "Wilt thou. . . .," "Wiliest thou to be made whole?"

Verse 6. - When Jesus saw him lying there, and perceived (came to know by his searching glance and intuitive knowledge of the history of others) that he had during a long time already been (in that condition, or in sickness,) said unto him - spontaneously, in the royalty of his benefactions, not demanding from the man even the faith to be healed, and dealing with him almost as he did with the dead - Wilt thou be made whole? The leper came beseeching him, "Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean." The leper was quite sure of his own intense desire for cleansing, and all he questioned was the will, not the power, of Jesus. The admission of the power was a tacit cry for healing. The questioning of Jesus on this occasion involved an offer of mercy. "Dost thou veritably wish for health and strength?" The question implies a doubt. The man may have got so accustomed to his life of indolence and mendicancy as to regard deliverance from his apparent wretchedness, with all consequent responsibilities of work and energy and self-dependence, as a doubtful blessing. He whined out, with professional drawl, his oft-told story, reflecting very much upon his lovelessness and quarrelsomeness, and ugly temper. There are many who are not anxious for salvation, with all the demands it makes upon the life, with its summons to self-sacrifice and the repression of self-indulgence. There are many religious impostors who prefer tearing open their spiritual wounds to the first passerby, and hugging their grievance, to being made into robust men upon whom the burden of responsibility will immediately fall. In this case the sign of his palsied nature was written upon his face, and was probably known to every passerby.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
When Jesus
Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.

saw
ἰδὼν (idōn)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3708: Properly, to stare at, i.e. to discern clearly; by extension, to attend to; by Hebraism, to experience; passively, to appear.

him
τοῦτον (touton)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

lying [there]
κατακείμενον (katakeimenon)
Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2621: From kata and keimai; to lie down, i.e. be sick; specially, to recline at a meal.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

realized
γνοὺς (gnous)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 1097: A prolonged form of a primary verb; to 'know' in a great variety of applications and with many implications.

that
ὅτι (hoti)
Conjunction
Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.

he had spent
ἔχει (echei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2192: To have, hold, possess. Including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o; a primary verb; to hold.

a long
πολὺν (polyn)
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 4183: Much, many; often.

time [in this condition],
χρόνον (chronon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5550: A space of time or interval; by extension, an individual opportunity; by implication, delay.

He asked
λέγει (legei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 3004: (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command.

him,
αὐτῷ (autō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

“Do you want
Θέλεις (Theleis)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 2309: To will, wish, desire, be willing, intend, design.

to get
γενέσθαι (genesthai)
Verb - Aorist Infinitive Middle
Strong's 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude.

well?”
ὑγιὴς (hygiēs)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5199: (a) sound, healthy, pure, whole, (b) wholesome. From the base of auzano; healthy, i.e. Well; figuratively, true.


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