{Father God let this reading touch someone’s heart today in Jesus Precious Name Amen.}
During Jesus’ time, the Pool of Bethesda lay outside the city walls. It was at this pool that Jesus performed a miracle showing that He is greater than any human malady and that superstition and religious folklore are foolish and feeble substitutes for faith in God. Also Know, what was the Pool of Siloam used for? Because the pool is fed by waters from the Gihon Spring, located in the Kidron Valley, the naturally flowing spring water would have qualified the pool for use as a “Mikveh” for ritual Jewish bathing. So, in John 5:1–15 shows Jesus healing a man who had been crippled for thirty-eight years. This is the third of John’s seven ”signs” of Christ. Interestingly, the crippled man expresses no prior knowledge of Jesus, nor any overwhelming desire to be healed. Jesus restores the man, then tells him to walk. A Healing and a Discourse. Jesus heals this man at the pool of Bethesda. After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. It has been confirmed by much modern scholarship that this miracle of Jesus happened at the Pool of Bethesda as is named in scripture. We see that this pool was near the Sheep Gate, a site which is mentioned in {Nehemiah 3:1-2 it reads: (KJV) Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel. And next unto him builded the men of Jericho.} and {Nehemiah 12:39: it reads: over the Gate of Ephraim, the Jeshanah Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate. At the Gate of the Guard, they stopped.}
Let’s read John chapter 5:1-15
After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 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. And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. 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? The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another stepped down before me. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath. The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, it is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed. He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, take up thy bed, and walk. Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk? And he that was healed Wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place. 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. The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.
{Let’s Pray}
Father God, I thank You and praise You for the many miracles of healing that Jesus did through You and the many lessons that You teach us through Your Word. Assist me to keep my focus on Jesus and not become too preoccupied with my own troubles and difficulties which can lure my mind and cause me to dwell on my present troubles, rather than on my faith and future hope. Keep me to be aware of Your leading and ready to listen to Your voice, in every situation of life. I thank You and praise You for Your amazing grace. I thank You and praise You that through faith in Jesus I have not only been forgiven of my sins, but I have been given all I need for life, freedom and godliness. I love You, thank You, praise You and give You all the glory in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
{Power Verse}
There is that makes himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that makes himself poor, yet hath great riches.
Proverbs 13:7
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