John 5:3–4
The sick “waiting for the moving of the water,” and the angel who troubled it, are in the great majority of Greek manuscripts and in Codex Alexandrinus of the fifth century, in the Old Latin, the Vulgate, and the Peshitta. Tertullian writes of the angel at the pool about AD 200, and Chrysostom preached on it at Antioch.
The King James Bible
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In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
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For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
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Greek Manuscripts
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With the uncials E F G H I K M U V Γ Δ Π.Checked against: Scrivener 1894
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Codex Alexandrinus A 02Its first hand has verse 4; a corrector wrote the end of verse 3.Checked against: CNTR transcription
Early Translations
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Old Latin itMost Old Latin manuscripts.Checked against: Scrivener 1894
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Bohairic Coptic cop boWilkins’ edition (1716).Checked against: Scrivener 1894
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Checked against: Clementine Vulgate (1592)
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Syriac Peshitta syr pChecked against: Scrivener 1894
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Armenian armThe printed editions.Checked against: Scrivener 1894
Church Fathers
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Alludes to it
“An angel, by his intervention, was wont to stir the pool at Bethsaida. They who were complaining of ill-health used to watch for him; for whoever had been the first to descend into them, after his washing, ceased to complain.”
Checked against: ANF 3 -
Quotes part of it
“And an Angel came down and troubled the water, and endued it with a healing power, that the Jews might learn that much more could the Lord of Angels heal the diseases of the soul. … Around this pool lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.”
Checked against: NPNF1 14
Printed Greek Texts with This Reading
- Textus Receptus · The Greek text the KJV was translated from, as Scrivener printed it (1894)
- Majority Text · The Byzantine text, read by the great majority of Greek manuscripts (Robinson and Pierpont, 2005)
Quotations from the Ante-Nicene and Nicene Fathers translations. Edition data from the Translators Amalgamated Greek NT, STEPBible.org (CC BY). About these texts and witnesses.
