5:1 這事以後，到了猶太人的一個節期，耶穌就上耶路撒冷去。
5:2 在耶路撒冷，靠近羊門有一個池子，希伯來話叫作畢士大，旁邊有五個廊子；
5:3 裡面躺著瞎眼的、瘸腿的、血氣枯乾的許多病人。（有古卷加：等候水動；
5:4 因為有天使按時下池子攪動那水，水動之後，誰先下去，無論害甚麼病就痊癒了。）
5:5 在那裡有一個人，病了三十八年。
5:6 耶穌看見他躺著，知道他病了許久，就問他說：「你要痊癒嗎？」
5:7 病人回答說：「先生，水動的時候，沒有人把我放在池子裡；我正去的時候，就有別人比我先下去。」
5:8 耶穌對他說：「起來，拿你的褥子走吧！」
5:9 那人立刻痊癒，就拿起褥子來走了。
5:10 那天是安息日，所以猶太人對那醫好的人說：「今天是安息日，你拿褥子是不可的。」
5:11 他卻回答說：「那使我痊癒的，對我說：『拿你的褥子走吧。』」
5:12 他們問他說：「對你說『拿褥子走』的是甚麼人？」
5:13 那醫好的人不知道是誰；因為那裡的人多，耶穌已經躲開了。
5:14 後來耶穌在殿裡遇見他，對他說：「你已經痊癒了，不要再犯罪，恐怕你遭遇的更加利害。」
5:15 那人就去告訴猶太人，使他痊癒的是耶穌。
Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. [4] [b] 5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10 and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”
11 But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”
12 So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”
13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” 15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.
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這個事件感人是因為有一個人病了三十八年，耶穌看見他躺著，知道他病了許久，就問他說：「你要痊癒嗎？」
無奈他說：「先生，水動的時候，沒有人把我放在池子裡；我正去的時候，就有別人比我先下去。」
因為畢士大，有一個傳說：有病的人要等候水動，趕快下去池子，最好是第一個人，就可以得醫治；因為有天使按時下池子攪動那水，水動之後，誰先下去，無論害甚麼病就痊癒了。
這個病三十八年的人，就是沒有機會把握到第一個！所以，就一直在那裏等很久，卻又不願意放棄！但是，心裡想要卻得不著，因為總有別人比他搶先！
當然他的遭遇也讓我想到自己的狀態，過去一直想要牧會，到過好多地方講道，都是敬陪末座，沒有被聘！好像都沒有被看好，內心也有許多沮喪！還好，上帝有另外的安排，但是那種落空我能夠體會！
期待人會落空，但是遇見主耶穌就不會落空，那人等畢士大池的水落空了，但是主耶穌出手醫治，就得痊癒了，沒有落空！
我們主耶穌的救贖也是如此，雖然很多人信主以後發覺自己還是沒有多大的改變，仍然是「過去的我」！心裡就覺得福音是上帝的大能嗎？心中有些落空的感覺！
其實，我們的盼望不是在今世就得著，那就不叫盼望，我們的盼望是尚未發生，是在主耶穌再來時，完全的得贖，那時我們才能完全更新，成為榮耀的新人，與主耶穌一同坐王到永遠！也因此，主榮耀國度完全實現的時候，我們才能一起享受榮耀無限！您盼望那日快快實現嗎？
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