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.

In other versions

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

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

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

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

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.

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