John 5:3
“In these lay a great multitude of impotent folke, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the mouing of the water.”
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John 5:3 Context
1After this there was a feast of the Iewes, and Iesus went vp to Hierusalem. 2Now there is at Hierusalem by the sheepe market, a poole, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, hauing fiue porches. 3In these lay a great multitude of impotent folke, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the mouing of the water. 4For an Angel went downe at a certaine season into the poole, and troubled the water: whosoeuer then first after the troubling of the water stepped in, was made whole of whatsoeuer disease he had. 5And a certaine man was there, which had an infirmitie thirtie and eight yeeres.
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Other Translations for John 5:3
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
- King James Version
In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, [waiting for the moving of the waters;
- New American Standard Version (1995)
In these lay a multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt, withered, `waiting for the moving of the water.'
- American Standard Version (1901)
In these doorways there were a great number of people with different diseases: some unable to see, some without the power of walking, some with wasted bodies.
- Basic English Bible
In these lay a multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, [awaiting the moving of the water.
- Darby Bible
In these lay a great multitude of impotent persons, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
- Webster's Bible
In these there used to lie a great number of sick persons, and of people who were blind or lame or paralyzed.
- Weymouth Bible
In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;
- World English Bible
In these lay a greet multitude of sike men, blynde, crokid, and drie, abidynge the mouyng of the watir.
- Wycliffe Bible
in these were lying a great multitude of the ailing, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water,
- Youngs Literal Bible
People's Bible Notes for John 5:3
Joh 5:3,4 In these lay a great multitude. All that follows the word "withered" in the third verse and all the fourth are wanting in the best MSS, and are evidently an interpolation.