Passage

John 5.1

Book: John · NASB95

Immediate context (±2 verses)

ASV

1. After these things 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. 3. In these lay a multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt, withered, (John 5:1-3, ASV)

WEB

1. After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five porches. 3. In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water; (John 5:1-3, WEB)

KJV

1. 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. ^{market: or, gate} 3. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. (John 5:1-3, KJV)

YLT

1. After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

and there is in Jerusalem by the sheep -[gate] a pool that is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches, 3. in these were lying a great multitude of the ailing, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water, (John 5:1-3, YLT)

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Setting

Speaker: TBD
Audience: TBD
Location: TBD
Time period: TBD

Theological reading

Patristic / early-church-father exegesis, to be added.

Key words

Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word.

G2424 - Iesous, Iesous, Strong's G2424

Quoted in

Arguments and defeaters:

Christians Not Under Mosaic Law, via John 5.1-18

Concepts:

Pool of Bethesda, via John 5.1-9

Notes

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Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the most literal English translations available (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the public domain in the United States, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

ASV (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
WEB (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
KJV (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
YLT (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

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