Juan 5:6

6 Cuando Jesús lo vio allí, tirado en el suelo, y se enteró de que ya tenía mucho tiempo de estar así, le preguntó:—¿Quieres quedar sano?

Juan 5:6 Meaning and Commentary

John 5:6

When Jesus saw him lie
In such a helpless condition:

and knew that he had been now a long time, [in that case],
or "in his disease", as the Ethiopic version supplies; even seven years before Christ was born; which is a proof of his omniscience: the words may be literally rendered, as they are in the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions, "that he had had much time"; or as the Arabic version, "that he had had many years"; that is had lived many years, and was now an old man; he had his disorder eight and thirty years, and which seems from ( John 5:14 ) to have arisen from some sin of his, from a vicious course of living, perhaps intemperance; so that he might be a middle aged man, when this distemper first seized him, and therefore must be now stricken in years:

he saith unto him, wilt thou be made whole?
which question is put, not as if it was a doubt, whether he was desirous of it, or not; for to what purpose did he lie and wait there else? but partly to raise in the man an expectation of a cure, and attention in the people to it: and it may be his sense and meaning is, wilt thou be made whole on this day, which was the sabbath; or hast thou faith that thou shall be made whole in this way, or by me?

Juan 5:6 In-Context

5 Entre ellos se encontraba un hombre inválido que llevaba enfermo treinta y ocho años.
6 Cuando Jesús lo vio allí, tirado en el suelo, y se enteró de que ya tenía mucho tiempo de estar así, le preguntó:—¿Quieres quedar sano?
7 —Señor —respondió—, no tengo a nadie que me meta en el estanque mientras se agita el agua, y cuando trato de hacerlo, otro se mete antes.
8 —Levántate, recoge tu camilla y anda —le contestó Jesús.
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