One human being had been sick for thirty-six years. How many thousands of days had somebody carried his bed to this puddle inwards hopes he’d walk away?
Jesus sees the human being as well as asks, “Would you lot similar to instruct well?”
Did Jesus really enquire that?
Isn't that sort of a no-brainer?
No.
Jesus knew that non everyone really wants to instruct good as well as surrender their addictions, bitterness, as well as self-pity. Not everyone wants to own got responsibleness for their lives as well as walk inwards Christ's freedom.
After healing him, He warned him:
“Now you lot are well; then terminate sinning, or something fifty-fifty worse may occur to you.”(2)
Perhaps something is crippling your walk alongside the Lord as well as Jesus is asking, "Would you lot similar to instruct well?"
How volition you lot answer?
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Read the others inwards this series: "Did God Really Say That?"
(1) From IVP New Testament Commentary: "Jesus is dorsum inwards Jerusalem at an unspecified feast. He visits a puddle at the northeast corner of the metropolis where people alongside diverse illnesses gathered to assay healing. This puddle was really 2 large trapezoid-shaped pools alongside a twenty-one-foot-wide infinite betwixt them. The whole construction was enclosed past times porches on each side, alongside a 5th porch over the expanse dividing the 2 pools. The H2O was occasionally disturbed, maybe from an cloak-and-dagger source such equally a boundary alongside irregular catamenia or drainage from some other pool. People believed ane could last healed past times getting into the puddle when this disturbance occurred. It is implied that at to the lowest degree some of those who got into the puddle when it was stirred really were healed (5:7)."
(2) While some sickness is caused past times sin (Does Faith Heal Us? and Wheelchair Miracle).
