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


In Context

1 After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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

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

4 for an angel went down at certain times into the pool, and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made whole of whatever disease he had.

5 A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-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 Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:3In these lay a great multitude of impotent persons, of blind, halt, withered, 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.