Hey church, it is time for Devo. If you've got your Bible, let's go to John chapter 5. John

chapter 5. We'll pick it up in verse 1. And after this, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now, one of the reasons the Bible will say that he goes up to Jerusalem is this talking about elevation. Jerusalem is built on top of Mount Moriah, which is the highest

of the mountains. They're really like hills, but they call them mountains. And so kind of no matter

where you are, northeast, south, or west, you are going up to get to Jerusalem. Now,

they're in Jerusalem by the sheep gate is a pool in Aramaic called

Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades, and in these lay a multitude of invalids,

blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for 38 years. And when Jesus saw him

lying there and knew that he had already been there for a long time, he said to them, do you want to be

healed? All right. So the reason that they would hang out by this particular pool, you can go there today.

If you ever go to Jerusalem with me, we'll take you there.

The colonnades are still there.

It's kind of a cool place.

And there was this kind of legend that an angel would come in and stir the water up,

and whoever got into the water first would be healed.

And so, I don't know if it's true or not, but there was a bunch of people there.

And so all the sick would kind of hang out waiting for their turn and their shot to jump in.

The Bible says that this one man, this nameless man, has been there for 38 years.

Jesus comes walking by, knows everything, knows he's sick, knows how long he's been there.

He looks at him and he asks him this question, do you want to be healed?

Now, I would never want to be like a smart aleck with Jesus, but I would say, what kind of question is that?

I mean, look at me, I'm sick.

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