“In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. John 5 contains 47 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.