2. PORTRAITS IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN Gospel Conversations John 5:1-15 “When Jesus Saw Him Lying There”

3. John 5:1-18 (NKJV) 1  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, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. 3  In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. 4  For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had.

4. Portrait for the Hopeless
I. THE MYSTERY OF THE WATERS: (vs.1-4) Is it subterranean? Angelic? Divine? Chance?

5. Portrait for the Hopeless
II. THE INTERSECTION: (vs.5-6) Contrast in Time: (38 yrs and eternal knowledge) Jesus has eternal knowledge: Do you want to be made whole?

6. Portrait for the Hopeless
III. THE INTERRUPTION: (vs.7-9) Excuses: “no one to help me” The Day: “sabbath”

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IV. THE CROSS EXAMINATION: (vs.10ff) A. Healing or broken law? B. Whose “Authority” C. Since you are healed, “sin no more” D. Healed man told everyone about Jesus.