won’t truly represent the larger work of eternal salvation unless the man knows it’s Jesus who healed him, for salvation requires knowing Jesus (10:14). And where does Jesus find the man? In the temple (a few hundred yards south of the pool). Now 2 Samuel 5:8 says that “the blind and the lame shall not come into the house [‘of the Lord,’ added by the Greek translation of the Old Testament].” And Jews understood this statement to mean that physically disabled people shouldn’t enter the temple courts.