Healing Paralytic at Bethesda. The Healing of a paralytic at Bethesda is one of the miraculous healings attributed to Jesus in the New Testament.
This event is recounted only in the Gospel of John, which says that it took place near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem, close to a fountain or a pool called Bethzatha in the Novum Testamentum Graece version of the New Testament. The Revised Standard Version and New Revised Standard Version use the name Bethzatha, but other versions have Bethesda.
The place is called Probatica, or in Hebrew Bethsaida, in the Douai-Rheims translation. John's Gospel account describes how Jesus, visiting Jerusalem for a Jewish feast, encounters one of the disabled people who used to lie here, a man who had been paralysed for thirty-eight years.
Jesus asks the man if he wants to get well. The man explains that he is unable to enter the water, because he has no one to help him in and others go down ahead of him.
Jesus tells him to pick up his bed or mat and walk; the man is instantly cured and is able to do so. The Gospel then explains that this healing took place on the Sabbath, and the local Jews told the cured man that the Law forbade him to carry his mat on this day. He tells them that he had been told to do so by the man who had healed him. They ask him who this healer was but he is unable to tell them because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd. Later, Jesus finds the man in the Temp
This event is recounted only in the Gospel of John, which says that it took place near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem, close to a fountain or a pool called Bethzatha in the Novum Testamentum Graece version of the New Testament. The Revised Standard Version and New Revised Standard Version use the name Bethzatha, but other versions have Bethesda.
The place is called Probatica, or in Hebrew Bethsaida, in the Douai-Rheims translation. John's Gospel account describes how Jesus, visiting Jerusalem for a Jewish feast, encounters one of the disabled people who used to lie here, a man who had been paralysed for thirty-eight years.
Jesus asks the man if he wants to get well. The man explains that he is unable to enter the water, because he has no one to help him in and others go down ahead of him.
Jesus tells him to pick up his bed or mat and walk; the man is instantly cured and is able to do so. The Gospel then explains that this healing took place on the Sabbath, and the local Jews told the cured man that the Law forbade him to carry his mat on this day. He tells them that he had been told to do so by the man who had healed him. They ask him who this healer was but he is unable to tell them because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd. Later, Jesus finds the man in the Temp
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