In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
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Gill's Exposition
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk,.... Sick and weak persons; who were an emblem of men under the law of works, and in a state of unregeneracy; who are enfeebled by sin, and are impotent…
Barnes' Notes
Impotent folk - Sick people; or people who were weak and feeble by long disease. The word means those who were “feeble” rather than those who were afflicted with “acute” disease. Halt - Lame. Withered…
Adam Clarke
Blind, halt, withered - To these the Codex Bezae, three copies of the Itala, and both the Persic, add παραλυτικων, paralytic; but they are probably included among the withered.
Waiting for the moving…
This miraculous cure is not recorded by any other of the evangelists, who confine themselves mostly to the miracles wrought in Galilee, but John relates those wrought at Jerusalem. Concerning this…
Cambridge Bible
lay a great multitude Better, were lying a multitude.
blind, halt, withered These are the special kinds of -impotent folk."
waiting for the moving of the water These words and the whole of Joh 5:5 are…
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