Graphic Bible · Scene 4 of 47

A white-clad messenger descends toward the pool in the background description.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible. Contextual illustration of the background description in the current POB verse 4, separate from Jesus’s healing of the Bethesda man.

John 5:4

When the Water Was Stirred

Life and the Witnesses · John 5

Story guide: A messenger descends, the water stirs, and an unnamed woman enters first before a separate view shows her recovered.

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4For an angel would go down into the pool from time to time and stir up the water. Therefore, the first one to step in after the stirring of the water would become well from whatever disease afflicted him.

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