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5:1 Yeshua heals a man at the pool

5 After all this, there was another Jewish feast, so Yeshua went down to Yerushalem. 2 In Yerushalem at the Sheep Gate, there’s the Bethsaida pool that has five alcoves 3 and a large number of sick, blind, lame, and paralysed people lie there in them. 4 ◘ 5 One man had been there for thirty-eight years, 6 and when Yeshua noticed him and knew that he’d been there for so long, he asked, “Do you want to get better?”

7 “Yes mister,” the sick man answered, “but when the water starts moving, I don’t have a companion to lift me into the pool, so someone else always get there before me.”

8 Then Yeshua said, “Stand up and pick up your bedroll and start walking.” 9 The man immediately stood up, picked up his gear, and started to walk.

However, this was the weekly rest day. 10 [ref]So the religious leaders said to the man, “Hey! It’s against the law for you to carry your bedding on the rest day!”

11 But the man answered, “The man who made me better told me to pick up my bedroll and start walking.”

12 “Oh. Who was it that told you to take that stuff and start walking?”

13 But the man who had been healed didn’t even know who it was, because Yeshua had quickly left when a crowd had formed.

14 Later on, Yeshua found the man in the temple and told him, “Look, you’re better now so don’t go on sinning, because you don’t want anything worse to happen to you.”

15 The man then went and told the leaders that it was Yeshua who had made him better. 16 As a result, the leaders started harassing Yeshua because he had done this on a rest day. 17 But Yeshua just replied, “My father is working today, and so I’m also working.”

18 Because of this, the leaders became determined that he must be put to death—not just because he broke the rules for the rest day, but most of all because he was calling God his own father, thus making himself equal to God!

5:10: Neh 13:19; Jer 17:21.

5 After these things there _was a_feast of _the Youdaiōns, and Yaʸsous went _up to Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim).
2 And there _is a_pool in the Hierousalaʸm at the sheep _gate, which being _called Baʸthsaida In _Hebraios, having five porticos.
3 In these a_multitude of _the ones ailing, blind, lame, paralyzed.
was _lying, 4  5 And was a_certain man there, being thirty eight years in the sicknesses of _him.
6 The Yaʸsous having _seen this one lying _down, and having _known that he _is_ already _having much time, he _is _saying to _him:
You _are _wanting healthy to _become?
7 The one ailing answered to _him:
Master, I _am_ not _having a_person, in _order _that whenever the water may _be _disturbed, he _may _put me into the pool, in but which am _coming I, another before me is _coming _down.
8 The Yaʸsous is _saying to _him:
Be _raising, take _up the pallet of _you, and be _walking.
9 And immediately the man became healthy, and took _up the pallet of _him, and was _walking.
And it _was the_day _of _rest on that the day.
10 Therefore the Youdaiōns were _saying to _the one having _been _healed:
It _is the_day _of _rest, and it _is_ not _permitting for _you to _take _up the pallet of _you.
11 but the_one answered to _them:
The one having _made me healthy, that one said to _me:
Take _up the pallet of _you and be _walking.
12 They _asked him:
Who is the man which having _said to _you:
Take _up and be _walking?
13 But the one having _been _healed not had _known who he _is, the for Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) bowed _out, a_crowd being in the place.
14 After these things the Yaʸsous is _finding him in the temple, and he _said to _him:
Behold, you _have _become healthy, be_ no _longer _sinning, in _order _that something worse may_ not _become to _you.
15 The man went _away, and declared to _the Youdaiōns that Yaʸsous is the one having _made him healthy.
16 And because _of this, the Youdaiōns were _persecuting the Yaʸsous, because he _was _doing these things on a_day _of _rest.
17 But he answered to _them:
The father of _me is _working until now, and _I am _working.
18 Therefore because _of this, the Youdaiōns were_ more _seeking him to _kill _off, because he _was_ not only _breaking the day _of _rest, but also he _was _calling god ^his_own father the, making himself equal to_ the _god.

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Jesus’ Final Journey to Jerusalem

Much like the difficulties of discerning the Israelites’ journey to the Promised Land (see here), the task of reconciling the four Gospel accounts of Jesus’ final journey to Jerusalem into one coherent itinerary has proven very challenging for Bible scholars. As with many other events during Jesus’ ministry, the accounts of Matthew, Mark, and Luke (often referred to as the Synoptic Gospels) present a noticeably similar account of Jesus’ final travels, while John’s Gospel presents an itinerary that is markedly different from the others. In general, the Synoptic Gospels present Jesus as making a single journey to Jerusalem, beginning in Capernaum (Luke 9:51), passing through Perea (Matthew 19:1-2; Mark 10:1) and Jericho (Matthew 20:29-34; Mark 10:46-52; Luke 18:35-19:10), and ending at Bethany and Bethphage, where he enters Jerusalem riding on a donkey (Matthew 21:1-11; Mark 11:1-11; Luke 19:28-44). John, on the other hand, mentions several trips to Jerusalem by Jesus (John 2:13-17; 5:1-15; 7:1-13; 10:22-23), followed by a trip to Perea across the Jordan River (John 10:40-42), a return to Bethany where he raises Lazarus from the dead (John 11), a withdrawal to the village of Ephraim for a few months (John 11:54), and a return trip to Bethany, where he then enters Jerusalem riding on a donkey (John 12:1-19). The differences between the Synoptics’ and John’s accounts are noteworthy, but they are not irreconcilable. The Synoptics, after noting that Jesus began his trip at Capernaum, likely condensed their accounts (as occurs elsewhere in the Gospels) to omit Jesus’ initial arrival in Jerusalem and appearance at the Festival of Dedication, thus picking up with Jesus in Perea (stage 2 of John’s itinerary). Then all the Gospels recount Jesus’ trip (back) to Bethany and Jerusalem, passing through Jericho along the way. Likewise, the Synoptics must have simply omitted the few months Jesus spent in Ephraim to escape the Jewish leaders (stage 4 of John’s itinerary) and rejoined John’s account where Jesus is preparing to enter Jerusalem on a donkey.

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