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Welcome back to Day 2, John Chapter five. We're going to dig right in

verse one. It says after this, there was a feast of the Jews and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Just a point of Bible study is that no matter where you were in Israel, you always went up to

Jerusalem. It's not talking about heading north, but Jerusalem was the highest

point in all of Israel. Therefore, you were always heading up to get to Jerusalem. Now, there

is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool. Now, this is very important. The sheep gate is on the northern section of the wall

in first century Jerusalem, but it was the easternmost gate. This typically would not be where

people would come in and out. This gate was designated for the sheep. There were pastures to the

north of Jerusalem. This would have been the gate that they would have brought

in the animals for the sacrifice because it leads directly to the backside of the temple.

This would also be where it would be nasty. There were actually a couple of pools there.

And one of these pools was designated for the sheep to be washed. And so what began to happen

around one of these pools, this pool called Bethesda,

is that people who had been treated like animals, they would begin to gather there.

Now there was in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, a pool in an Ameriq called Bethesda,

which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of

invalids, blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man who was there, he had been an invalid for 38 years.

Now, I just want to stop right there. The way the world saw these people, the name that we use in English, is invalid.

Now, if you do a little bit of English etymology of the word, if you break it into its components,

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