John Chapter 5, Verse 3
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3: εν ταυταις κατεκειτο πληθος πολυ των ασθενουντων τυφλων χωλων ξηρων εκδεχομενων την του υδατος κινησιν
3: In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind,
halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
3: In these lay a great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, of
withered: waiting for the moving of the water.
Impotent folk. Sick people; or people who were weak and feeble by long disease. The word means those who were feeble rather than those who were afflicted with acute disease.
Halt. Lame.
Withered. Those who were afflicted with one form of the palsy that withered or dried up the part affected. See Barnes "Mt 4:24".
Moving of the water. It appears that this pool had medicinal properties only when it was agitated or stirred. It is probable that at regular times or intervals the fountain put forth an unusual quantity of water, or water of peculiar properties, and that about these times the people assembled in multitudes who were to be healed.
