John 5:3
Good News Translation
A large crowd of sick people were lying on the porches--the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed.

New Revised Standard Version
In these lay many invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.

New American Bible
In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled. [

Douay-Rheims Bible
In these lay a great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, of withered: waiting for the moving of the water.

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In these lay a great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, of withered: waiting for the moving of the water.

of blind.

Matthew 15:30 And there came to him great multitudes, having with them the dumb, the blind, the lame, the maimed, and many others: and they cast them down at his feet, and he healed them:

Luke 7:22 And answering, he said to them: Go and relate to John what you have heard and seen: the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are made clean, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, to the poor the gospel is preached.

withered.

1 Kings 13:4 And when the king had heard the word of the man of God, which he had cried out against the altar in Bethel, he stretched forth his hand from the altar, saying: Lay hold on him. And his hand which he stretched forth against him, withered: and he was not able to draw it back again to him.

Zechariah 11:17 O shepherd, and idol, that forsaketh the flock: the sword upon his arm and upon his right eye: his arm shall quite wither away, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

Mark 3:1-4 And he entered again into the synagogue: and there was a man there who had a withered hand. . . .

waiting.

Proverbs 8:34 He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord.

Lamentations 3:26 Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.

Romans 8:25 But if we hope for that which we see not, we wait for it with patience.

James 5:7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain.

Context
The Pool of Bethesda
2Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida, having five porches. 3In these lay a great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, of withered: waiting for the moving of the water.
Cross References
Matthew 4:24
And his fame went throughout all Syria, and they presented to him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and such as were possessed by devils, and lunatics, and those that had the palsy, and he cured them:

John 5:2
Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida, having five porches.

John 5:4
And an angel of the Lord descended at certain times into the pond and the water was moved. And he that went down first into the pond after the motion of the water was made whole of whatsoever infirmity he lay under.

John 5:2
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