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John 5:3

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3Under these porches a large number of sick people—people who were blind, lame, or paralyzed—used to lie.a

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  1. a5:3 Some manuscripts and translations add verses 3b–4: “They would wait for the water to move. People believed that at a certain time an angel from the Lord would go into the pool and stir up the water. The first person who would step into the water after it was stirred up would be cured 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.

KJV 1900King James Version

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