Poolside Healing

Follow Along with the Message

“Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days.”

John 5:1 (NLT)

Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches. 3 Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches. 5 One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?” 7 “I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets there ahead of me.” 8 Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!” 9 Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking! But this miracle happened on the Sabbath, 10 so the Jewish leaders objected. They said to the man who was cured, “You can’t work on the Sabbath! The law doesn’t allow you to carry that sleeping mat!” 11 But he replied, “The man who healed me told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ” 12 “Who said such a thing as that?” they demanded. 13 The man didn’t know, for Jesus had disappeared into the crowd. 14 But afterward Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, “Now you are well; so stop sinning, or something even worse may happen to you.” 15 Then the man went and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had healed him.

John 5:2–15 (NLT)

This third sign shows that Jesus is the  who speaks and acts for God in order to make people .

Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches.

John 5:2 (NLT)

“One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years.”

John 5:5 (NLT)

“When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?”

John 5:6  (NLT)

• So Jesus is essentially asking this man if he is willing to do what it takes to be reborn into the whole person that God intended for him to be.

“I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets there ahead of me.”

John 5:7 (NLT)

“…They said to the man who was cured, “You can’t work on the Sabbath! The law doesn’t allow you to carry that sleeping mat!” But he replied, “The man who healed me told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ” “Who said such a thing as that?” they demanded. The man didn’t know, for Jesus had disappeared into the crowd.”

John 5:10–13 (NLT)

But afterward Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, “Now you are well; so stop sinning, or something even worse may happen to you.” 15 Then the man went and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had healed him.

John 5:14-15 (NLT)

Are you willing to become whole?

• Decide if I am  to be changed.
• Quit .
• Take .