MORE SPOKEN ENGLISH – MORE ABOUT JESUS:  #9 Jesus Heals a Lame Man

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John 5:1-18

 

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1 Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days.  (Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days.)

2 Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate,  (Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate,)

was a pool with five covered porches.  (was a pool with five covered porches.)

2 Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was a pool with five covered porches.  (Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was a pool with five covered porches.)

3 Crowds of sick people--blind, lame, or paralyzed  (Crowds of sick people--blind, lame, or paralyzed

lay on the porches.  (lay on the porches.)

3 Crowds of sick people--blind, lame, or paralyzed--lay on the porches.  (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.  (One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years.)

6 When Jesus saw him and knew how long he had been ill, he asked him,  (When Jesus saw him and knew how long he had been ill, he asked him,)

"Would you like to get well?"  ("Would you like to get well?")

6 When Jesus saw him and knew how long he had been ill, he asked him, "Would you like to get well?"  (When Jesus saw him and knew how long he had been ill, he asked him, "Would you like to get well?")

7 "I can't, sir," the sick man said,  ("I can't, sir," the sick man said,)

"for I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred up.  ("for I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred up.)

7 "I can't, sir," the sick man said, "for I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred up.  ("I can't, sir," the sick man said, "for I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred up.)

While I am trying to get there,  (While I am trying to get there,)

someone else always gets in ahead of me."  (someone else always gets in ahead of me.")

While I am trying to get there, someone else always gets in ahead of me."  (While I am trying to get there, someone else always gets in ahead of me.")

8 Jesus told him, "Stand up, pick up your sleeping mat, and walk!"  (Jesus told him, "Stand up, pick up your sleeping mat, and walk!")

9 Instantly, the man was healed!  (Instantly, the man was healed!)

He rolled up the mat and began walking!  (He rolled up the mat and began walking!)

But this miracle happened on the Sabbath day.  (But this miracle happened on the Sabbath day.)

10 So the Jewish leaders objected.  (So the Jewish leaders objected.)

They said to the man who was cured,  (They said to the man who was cured,)

"You can't work on the Sabbath!  ("You can't work on the Sabbath!)

They said to the man who was cured, "You can't work on the Sabbath!  (They said to the man who was cured, "You can't work on the Sabbath!)

It's illegal to carry that sleeping mat!"  (It's illegal to carry that sleeping mat!")

11 He replied, "The man who healed me said to me,  (He replied, "The man who healed me said to me,)

'Pick up your sleeping mat and walk.' "  ('Pick up your sleeping mat and walk.' ")

11 He replied, "The man who healed me said to me, 'Pick up your sleeping mat and walk.' "  (He replied, "The man who healed me said to me, 'Pick up your sleeping mat and walk.' ")

12 "Who said such a thing as that?" they demanded.  ("Who said such a thing as that?" they demanded.)


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13 But he did not know who Jesus was, and Jesus had left because of the crowd. 

14 Later, Jesus met the man in the temple and told him, "You are now well. But don't sin anymore or something worse might happen to you." 15 The man left and told the leaders that Jesus was the one who had healed him. 16 They started making a lot of trouble for Jesus because he did things like this on the Sabbath. 

17 But Jesus said, "My Father has never stopped working, and that is why I keep on working." 18 Now the leaders wanted to kill Jesus for two reasons. First, he had broken the law of the Sabbath. But even worse, he had said that God was his Father, which made him equal with God. 



Scripture quotations from verses 1-12 are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved. 

Scripture quotations from verses 13-18 are from the Contemporary English Version Copyright © 1991, 1992, 1995 by American Bible Society, Used by Permission.



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VOCABULARY  (Suggestion: To understand the meaning better, read  John 5:1-18 from a Bible written in your language.)

a (an)
afterward
ahead
always
am (to be)
and
as
asked (to ask)
been (to be)
began (to begin)
blind (blind, blinder, blindest, blindly)
but
can't (= can not)
carry (to carry)
city
covered (to cover)
crowd
cured (to cure)
day
demanded (to demand)
else
five (5)
for
gate
get (to get)
gets (to get)
had (to have)
happened (to happen)
have (to have)
he
healed (to heal)
help (to help)
him
holy
how
I
ill
illegal
in
inside
instantly (instant, instantly)
into
is (to be)
it's (= it is)
Jerusalem = a place name
Jesus = a man’s name
Jewish = an ethnic name
knew (to know)
lame
lay (to lie)
leader
like (to like)
long (long, longer, longest)
lying (to lie)
man (men)
mat
me
men (man)
miracle
near (near, nearer, nearest, nearly)
no
objected (to object)
of
on
one
or
paralyzed (to paralyze)
people (person)
pick (to pick)
pool
porch
replied (to reply)
returned (to return)
rolled (to roll)
Sabbath = a religious day
said (to say)
saw (to see)
sheep
sick (sick, sicker, sickest, sickly)
sir
sleeping (to sleep)
so
someone
stand (to stand)
stirred (to stir)
such
that
the
there
they
thing
thirty-eight (38)
this
to
to ask
to be
to carry
to cover
to cure
to demand
to get
to happen
to have
to heal
to help
to know
to like
to object
to paralyze
to pick
to reply
to roll
to sleep
to stand
to stir
to tell
to try
to walk
to work
told (to tell)
trying (to try)
up
walk (to walk)
walking (to walk)
was (to be)
water
well
when
while
who
with
work (to work)
would
year
you
your