John Chapter 5
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Introduction: In Chapter 4, we saw Jesus coming to the woman of Samaria at Jacob’s Well where Jesus explained to her how to be saved and to partake of the Living Water that only Jesus can give. We talked of how this will satisfy our spiritual thirst forever. As we closed in the chapter, we saw Jesus coming back to Cana in Galilee where the nobleman came to Christ with the son that was about to die.
Just by speaking to Jesus and showing his faith in Christ, Christ healed the boy without ever going to the home. Jesus is the Great Physician. He can heal our physical maladies, but even more, He can bring us back into a perfect relation with God.
The first half of John 5 presents Jesus’ healing of the ‘impotent’ man at the pool of Bethesda. He then defends himself against the subsequent, virulent attack of Jewish critics. In the latter half of this chapter, Jesus focused on two matters: (1) His judgment at the coming resurrections; and (2) the validating four-fold witness of Him.
I. Christ at the Pool of Bethesda
John 5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Jesus heals the impotent man. “After this” is a reference to events since Jesus last journey to Jerusalem for the Passover recorded in John 2. What feast may be at hand is not totally clear. There were seven major Jewish feasts a year. Jesus goes up to Jerusalem to take part in the feast of the Jews. This feast may have been the feast of Pentecost. Pentecost was one of the three great annual feasts which the law required for every male Israelite to observe in Jerusalem.
We see Jesus honoring the Divine Law by going up to Jerusalem at the season of its celebration. It is important to recognize that Jesus did not come to destroy the law, but by observing it and fulfilling it, he glorified God with His life.
Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
The requirements for the feasts are found in Deuteronomy chapter 16.
Deu 16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
Deu 16:2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.
Deu 16:16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:Deu 16:17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
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