Welcome to the Gospel and Life podcast. Many of us often focus on the big moments in Jesus's life,

his birth, death, and resurrection. But how would your understanding of Jesus change if you took a

closer look at what he did and said throughout his life on earth. Today, Tim Keller explores why Jesus' everyday experiences

are essential for understanding who he is

and how they invite us to have a deeper trust in him.

This week's reading is from John 5.

Sometime later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals.

Now, there is in Jerusalem near the sheep gate a pool which in Aramaic is called Bethesda,

and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie, the blind, the lame, the paralyzed,

and they waited for the moving of the waters, from time to time an angel of the Lord would come down and stir up the waters.

The first one into the pool after each such disturbance would be cured

of whatever disease they had. One who was there had been an invalid for 38 years. When Jesus

saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him,

do you want to get well? Sir, the invalid replied, I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred.

While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.

Then Jesus said to him, get up, pick up your mat, and walk.

At once the man was cured, he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place

was a Sabbath, and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, it is the Sabbath. The law

forbids you to carry your mat. But he replied, the man who made me well said to me, pick up your man and walk.

So they asked him, who was this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?

The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd

that was there.

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