“When the Waters Are Stirred” - John 5:1-9a
December 31, 2023
Jim Stratton
December 31, 2023

John 5:1-9a - After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. 5 One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” 9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.

Convocations Most Holy

  Jesus


  These Are Places and Times of (Bethesda)
      Mercy

Commonalities Most Desperate

Deuteronomy 2:14 - And the time from our leaving Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.

 

, Alone, Hopeless

Cures Most Available

  Sometimes Upon

, Sometimes Not
  Always With a
      Glory or
      Futility or
            It Is Who Stirs the Waters