Sermon Bible Commentary - John 5:6-7
John 5:6-7 Consider whether, over and above the general typical features which we may detect in this miracle, there be not significative circumstances in the history from which, as Christians, we may draw great practical lessons. I. Observe, that it was only at certain seasons that the angel descended, and only the individual that was instantly on the alert, to take advantage of the troubling of the waters, that was healed of his infirmities. The waters were not at all times equally... read more
Sermon Bible Commentary - John 5:2-3
John 5:2-3 Scripture a Record of Human Sorrow I. There lay about the Pool of Bethesda a great multitude of impotent folk of blind, halt, and withered. This is a painful picture, such as we do not like to dwell upon a picture of a chief kind of human suffering, bodily disease; one which suggests to us and typifies all other suffering the most obvious fulfilment of that curse which Adam's fall brought upon his descendants. Now it must strike everyone who thinks about it that the Bible is full of... read more