
Week X John 5:1-18 Cure of a Paralytic by the Pool 11/27, Tues.
John 5:1-5
•Can you guess what “lamb” Gate was for?
•Can you guess what “lamb” Gate was for?
-Bethesda in Hebrew means “the place of the twin spring outpouring”.
•Pay attention to the numbers.
-How many porticoes? How old was the man?
John 5:6-9
•Why would Jesus come to the pool?
-LK 10:9, CCC 1503
•Why did Jesus choose that man?
John 5:10-14
•Which law the man broke according to the Jews?
•Where do you think the man went after the healing? To do what?
-MT 8:1-4, Lev 14: 1-32
Suffer, Disease, Death
•What did Jesus tell this man?
•Do we know if the man’s disease was caused by sin? Did Jews believe sin caused disease or death?
-John 9:2, Ezekiel 18:20.
•Can sin or wrong conduct bring sickness or death?
-1 Cor 11:30, James 5:14-16
•Is there one-to-one connection between sin and suffering?
-John 9:1-3
•Why Jesus did not just heal everyone there?
-CCC 1505
•So how to deal with Suffer, Pain in our life?
- 2 Cor 12:7, Rom 12:12
Worse Things?
•What was the worse thing Jesus might refer to?
-John 5:29
•After we “born from above” through baptism, What are the worse things may happen if we continue to sin?
Heb 10:26-29; Rev 21:8, CCC 1861
•What shall we do?
John 5:15-16
•What did Jesus do on a Sabbath? Why did Jews begin to persecute Him?
•What was the Jewish leaders’ overall relationship with Jesus?
-CCC 575
Sabbath
•What’s a Sabbath?
-Exodus 20: 8-9
•What seemed concerns the Jewish leadership more: the act of healing or the man’s carrying a mat? Were they concerned more for man or for their own laws?
•Were the laws made for man, or man for the laws?
-MK 2:27, CCC 582
Law
•Was Jesus against the law? How can these reconcile with “not to abolish them but to fulfill”?
-CCC 2173
•How shall we deal with law in our life?
John 5:17
•What’s Jesus’ relationship with the Father? Did Jews call God their father?
-EX 4:22, 23, Is 63:16
•How was Jesus’ claim of sonship different that of Jews?
-CCC 443
John 5:18
•What were two reasons Jews wanting to kill Jesus?
Advanced questions
•What’s the hidden story beneath John’s writing?
Hint: Numbers Deut 2:14
•Pay attention to the numbers.
-How many porticoes? How old was the man?
John 5:6-9
•Why would Jesus come to the pool?
-LK 10:9, CCC 1503
•Why did Jesus choose that man?
John 5:10-14
•Which law the man broke according to the Jews?
•Where do you think the man went after the healing? To do what?
-MT 8:1-4, Lev 14: 1-32
Suffer, Disease, Death
•What did Jesus tell this man?
•Do we know if the man’s disease was caused by sin? Did Jews believe sin caused disease or death?
-John 9:2, Ezekiel 18:20.
•Can sin or wrong conduct bring sickness or death?
-1 Cor 11:30, James 5:14-16
•Is there one-to-one connection between sin and suffering?
-John 9:1-3
•Why Jesus did not just heal everyone there?
-CCC 1505
•So how to deal with Suffer, Pain in our life?
- 2 Cor 12:7, Rom 12:12
Worse Things?
•What was the worse thing Jesus might refer to?
-John 5:29
•After we “born from above” through baptism, What are the worse things may happen if we continue to sin?
Heb 10:26-29; Rev 21:8, CCC 1861
•What shall we do?
John 5:15-16
•What did Jesus do on a Sabbath? Why did Jews begin to persecute Him?
•What was the Jewish leaders’ overall relationship with Jesus?
-CCC 575
Sabbath
•What’s a Sabbath?
-Exodus 20: 8-9
•What seemed concerns the Jewish leadership more: the act of healing or the man’s carrying a mat? Were they concerned more for man or for their own laws?
•Were the laws made for man, or man for the laws?
-MK 2:27, CCC 582
Law
•Was Jesus against the law? How can these reconcile with “not to abolish them but to fulfill”?
-CCC 2173
•How shall we deal with law in our life?
John 5:17
•What’s Jesus’ relationship with the Father? Did Jews call God their father?
-EX 4:22, 23, Is 63:16
•How was Jesus’ claim of sonship different that of Jews?
-CCC 443
John 5:18
•What were two reasons Jews wanting to kill Jesus?
Advanced questions
•What’s the hidden story beneath John’s writing?
Hint: Numbers Deut 2:14
