Following a recent episode of Unbelievable? on miracle healing, Erik Strandness explores what we can learn about healing from the biblical account of the pool at Bethesda

“Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids – blind, lame and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for 38 years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him: ‘Do you want to be healed?’ The sick man answered him: ‘Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.’ Jesus said to him: ‘Get up, take up your bed, and walk.’ And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.” (John 5: 2-9)

A man who had been crippled for 38 years sat with his fellow disabled friends by a pool waiting for a miracle. Legend had it… (Register to read the rest of the article)