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Near the Shep Gate was a pond that had five porticos. Betesda, as excavations show, the porticoed halls are still verifiable today. The name Betesda = house of mercy.

Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem to fulfill his mission. According to Isaiah 35: 5-6, prophets foretold hundreds of years ago that a Helper, a Savior, would come. A helper who brings help and salvation for body and soul.

In these halls lay a multitude of sick people: blind, lame, emaciated people who waited for an angel to move the water. Whoever came into the pond first became well; no matter what ailment he had. One of the people lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years. Do we have any idea what thirty-eight years mean?

When Jesus saw the paralyzed man and heard that he had been suffering from his illness for so long, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” The sick man replied, “Lord, I have no one to help me when the water moves in the Pond brings! ”But when I come, someone else climbs in before me. The paralyzed lay helpless, weak and handicapped. I have no one who shows people’s forlornness. Left alone, forget nobody is there for me. Neither relatives nor acquaintances, nobody.

The man wants to get well. But he doesn’t see a possibility. Are there people around us who stand by us when we need their help? Do we also see the needy neighbor? Blessed are the merciful; for they will receive mercy. Matthew 5: 7 and Luke 6:36 be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. 


These are the hallmarks of compassion, mercy:

  • Charity!
    Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? Isaiah 58,7 (ESV)
  • Helpfulness!
    In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, „It is more blessed to give than to receive.“ Acts 20,35 (ESV)
  • Bear loads!
    Bear one anothers burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ Galatians 6,2 (ESV)
  • Visiting the needy!
    Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. James 1,27 (ESV)

One who really gives mercy: Jesus, now this sick person also has a person. Jesus said to him: Get up, take your mat and go! 

  • Jesus speaks words of creation: Get up, take your bed and go
  • Jesus gives him back his health 
  • Obedience to the command completes the healing 
  • Immediately the person got well and took his mat and left

What happened? A complete change in his situation.


  • First sick, lame – now he can stand and walk.
  • Abandoned, dejected, depressed. Now hope
  • Sad now happy
  • Now he can go to people and offer his help

Jesus did that. There is also our place when we seek mercy: with Jesus

Author: Edith Waechter
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