*some manuscripts add verse 4: because every now and then an angel of the Lord went down into the pool and stirred up the water. The first sick person to go into the pool after the water was stirred up was healed from whatever disease he had.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Within these lay a large number of the disabled—blind, lame, and paralyzed.

NLTNew Living Translation

Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

In these were lying a large number of those who were sick, blind, lame, paralyzed.

In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 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.

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John 5:3–4

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