invalids such as the blind, lame, and paralyzed used to lie (5:3), because people believed that the water in the double pool had healing power.5 Some ancient authorities insert verse 4 after 5:3 to read: “… waiting for the moving of the water, 4 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.” This addition reflects a popular belief at that time and the scribes
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