Close to the Sheep's Gate in Jerusalem, there was a pool, which was called the Sheep's Pool. It had round about it five porches, that is, five sets of pillars supporting a domed roof. Under this roof there lay very many sick people with various maladies, awaiting the moving of the water. The first to step in after the troubling of the water was healed immediately of whatever malady he had.
It was there
that the paralytic of today's Gospel way lying, tormented by his infirmity of
thirty-eight years. When Christ beheld him, He asked him, "Wilt thou be
made whole?" And he answered with a quiet and meek voice, "Sir, I
have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool." The
Lord said unto him, "Rise, take up thy bed, and walk." And
straightaway the man was made whole and took up his bed. Walking in the
presence of all, he departed rejoicing to his own house. According to the
expounders of the Gospels, the Lord Jesus healed this paralytic during the days
of the Passover, when He had gone to Jerusalem for the Feast, and dwelt there
teaching and working miracles. According to Saint John the Evangelist, this
miracle took place on the Sabbath.
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