John 5:3–5
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5:3A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways.95:5Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.10
Footnotes
- 9 The majority of later (C3 Θ Ψ 078 f1, 13 𝔐) add the following to 5:3: “waiting for the moving of the water. 5:4 For an angel of the Lord went down and stirred up the water at certain times. Whoever first stepped in after the stirring of the water was healed from whatever disease which he suffered.” Other include only v. 3b (Ac D 33 lat) or v. 4 (A L it). Few textual scholars today would accept the authenticity of any portion of vv. 3b–4, for they are not found in the earliest and best witnesses (𝔓66, 75 א B C* T co), they include un-Johannine vocabulary and syntax, several of the that include the verses mark them as spurious (with an asterisk or obelisk), and because there is a great amount of textual diversity among the witnesses that do include the verses. The present translation follows in omitting the verse number, a procedure also followed by a number of other modern translations.
- 10 Grk “who had had thirty-eight years in his disability.”
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
Within these lay a large number of the disabled—blind, lame, and paralyzed.
One man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.
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