Do You Want To Be Healed?

John 5:01-17

Key Verse 06: “When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?””

1. V1-4. Describe the pool of Bethesda and the people that were there. Can you think of a ‘pool of Bethesda’ that exists today that people go to try to get help?
2. V5-9. What kind of person was the man and what did his life look like? Why do you think Jesus asked him if he wanted to be healed? What did it mean for the man to obey Jesus’ words to “Get up, take up your bed, and walk”?
3. V9-13. Why did the Jews talk to the man that was healed? How did the man respond? Why didn’t the man know that it was Jesus who healed him?
4. V14. Where did the man go after he was healed? What does this reveal about how we can encounter Jesus and know him as our healer? What did Jesus say to the man and why do you think he said these things?
5. V15-17. Why do you think the man told the Jews that it was Jesus who healed him? What impact did this have on Jesus? What does Jesus’ response reveal about the work that he is doing, and that we are called to participate in?

Notes:

* Verse 4

Waiting for the moving of the water; for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool, and stirred the water: whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had

The Feast of Purim

Commentators think that the feast mentioned in verse 1 could be the feast of Purim. It was kept on the 14th of Adar (March), in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the plots of Haman, and took its name from the lots cast by him (Esther 9:20-32).