“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.”
[One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.] — the variant manuscripts suggest this verse may be a later addition, but the thirty-eight years is theologically significant: long enough that recovery seems impossible, long enough that the man has internalized his condition as permanent.
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