“In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.”
Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. — the enumeration of the afflicted establishes the setting as a place of concentrated human suffering. The implicit question: why would God permit such suffering? Jesus will answer not by theodicy but by healing.
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