Jesus healed a man who had been unable to walk for 38 years at the pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem. This miracle is described in the Gospel of John, Chapter 5.
Jesus had to walk the entire way to calvary, even though he fell, and some one else carried the cross for him.
Some of the miracles Jesus performed in Jerusalem include healing a blind man near the Pool of Siloam (John 9:1-11), raising Lazarus from the dead (John 11:1-44), and cleansing the Temple by driving out the money changers (Matthew 21:12-13).
The angel at Bethesda who troubled the waters was not named in the Bible. The story appears in the Gospel of John, where an angel would periodically stir up the waters at the pool of Bethesda, believed to have healing powers.
There are Three separate instances of blind men being healed. Also notice Jesus healed them in a different way each time.1. John 9:6 - "After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes. 7 "Go," he told him, "wash in the Pool of Siloam" (this word means "Sent"). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing."2. Mark 10:52 "Go," said Jesus, "your faith has healed you." Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.3. Mark 8:23-25 He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man's eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, "Do you see anything?" 24 He looked up and said, "I see people; they look like trees walking around."25 Once more Jesus put his hands on the man's eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly
Another answer from our communiy:Jesus turned water into wine at the wedding of his friends in Cana because the wine provided at the wedding had been consumed. It showed his power, and the disciples believed.Jesus said,If that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. Luke 12:45,46
There was a pool named Bethesda in Jerusalem which is the miracle pool mentioned in bible. The John chapter 5:1-10 describes the miracle done by Jesus to a man nearby the pool.
Pool of Bethesda
Bethesda
The main complaints the Jews had against Jesus were that he 1. healed the man on a sabbath day 2. claimed God was his father. (John 5:15-18)
The healing of the man with an infirmity occurred at the pool in Bethesda.
The pool at Bethesda is now known to have been part of an Asclepium - a temple to the Greek god of healing, Asclepius. Whenever the god came by and disturbed the waters, whoever then first entered the water would be cured. Because the man whom Jesus cured was lame, he was never able to get into the water first, so someone else always got the healing powers of the water. According to John 5:5 he had been there for thirty eight years.
No one. Everyone that was healed believed first and so came to Jesus. The only exception to this was the man at the pool of Siloam, (John 9.7), whom Jesus sought out first.
Jesus healed the lame man by the pool of Bethesda. John 5: 2Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. 3In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 4For 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. 5And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. 6When 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? 7The 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 steppeth down before me. 8Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. 9And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
It means that God is always going offer you the opportunity to heal. It refers to the pool at Bethesda, where the water was thought to be stirred by an angel from time to time and the first one to step into the pool after it was "troubled" would be healed of any infirmity. Such an occurrence is mentioned in John: 5, 4 where Jesus heals one waiting for that chance but who is lame and not able to get to the pool first. The song "Wade in the Water" is a Negro spiritual that is meant to remind us of God's constant offering of the opportunity to be healed, never leaving us to find healing by ourselves.
John 5:2 (NIV).
38 years at the pool watching bathers...is no different from David watching Bathsheba.
Archaeologists have found the five-sided pool of Bethesda, in Jerusalem. Since the first century BCE, it had been associated with the local temple of Asclepius, the Greek god of healing. Evidence of its function is in a votive offering found near the pool, given to the temple by a woman who had been healed by Asclepius. Gentiles who needed healing powers would have gone to the pool. However, its location in Jerusalem suggests that even Jews, when all other avenues of cure had failed, would go to the pool and wait for the god to disturb the waters, providing a healing opportunity for one lucky person. The man said to have been cured by Jesus was a Jew.