Healing a Paralytic      John 5:1-18

This post covers healing a paralytic as the third sign in the gospel of John.

Healing a Paralytic discusses the meaning of this third sign/miracle in John. Jesus found a man, an invalid for 38 years, desiring healing by the Bethesda Pool. The sick and invalids thought that if they could get into the pool first after it was ‘troubled’, they would experience healing.

Jesus felt pity for him, John 5:6. “When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”

The man explained that no one helped him get to the water first. Then, Jesus spoke, John 5:8-9 “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.”

When the Jews saw the man carrying his bed, they objected. The healed man explained, John 5:11. “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’” The Jews asked who told him to take up his bed. The healed man did not know because the crowd shielded Jesus.

Later, Jesus spoke to him in the temple, John 5:14. “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.” This may mean that a sin had caused the man to be an invalid.

The Jews persecuted Jesus because He healed on the Sabbath. They considered healing as work. Jesus responded, John 5:17. “My Father is working until now, and I am working.” This means God upholds the universe every day. So, Jesus, as Deity, could heal on the Sabbath.

The Jews reacted, John 5:18. “This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.”

So, what did we learn?

1.Jesus has power over disease and can heal an invalid.

2.The Jews sought to kill Jesus because of the miracles He did on the Sabbath.

3.Jesus made Himself equal to God.

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