3In these lay a great multitude of impotent persons, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.


In Context

1 After this there was a feast of the Jews: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue, Bethesda, having five porches.

3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent persons, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and agitated the water: whoever then first after the stirring of the water stepped in, was cured of whatever disease he had.

5 And a certain man was there, who had an infirmity thirty and eight years.

John 5:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:3In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:3Here a great number of disabled people used to lie--the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:3In these lay a great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, of withered; waiting for the moving of the water.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:3In these lay a multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:3In these lay a multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, awaiting the moving of the water.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:3In these lay a multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt, withered.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:3In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:3in these were lying a great multitude of the ailing, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:3In these lay a great multitude of weak folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.