John 5:1
New International Version
Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals.

New Living Translation
Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days.

English Standard Version
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Berean Standard Bible
Some time later there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Berean Literal Bible
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

King James Bible
After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

New King James Version
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

New American Standard Bible
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

NASB 1995
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

NASB 1977
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Legacy Standard Bible
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Amplified Bible
Later on there was a Jewish feast (festival), and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Christian Standard Bible
After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

American Standard Version
After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
After these things there was a feast of the Judeans, and Yeshua went up to Jerusalem.

Contemporary English Version
Later, Jesus went to Jerusalem for another Jewish festival.

Douay-Rheims Bible
AFTER these things was a festival day of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

English Revised Version
After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Later, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a Jewish festival.

Good News Translation
After this, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a religious festival.

International Standard Version
Later on, there was another festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Literal Standard Version
After these things there was a celebration of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

Majority Standard Bible
Some time later there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

New American Bible
After this, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

NET Bible
After this there was a Jewish feast, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

New Revised Standard Version
After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

New Heart English Bible
After these things, there was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Webster's Bible Translation
After this there was a feast of the Jews: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Weymouth New Testament
After this there was a Festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

World English Bible
After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Young's Literal Translation
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

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Context
The Pool of Bethesda
1Some time later there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool with five covered colonnades, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 16:1
Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

John 2:13
When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.


Treasury of Scripture

After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

John 2:13
And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

Exodus 23:14-17
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year…

Exodus 34:23
Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

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(1) A feast of the Jews.--The writer does not tell us what feast this was, and we must be content to remain without certain knowledge. There is, perhaps, no Jewish feast with which it has not been identified, and it has been even proclaimed confidently that it must have been the Day of Atonement! (Caspari, Chron. and Geogr., Introd., Eng. Trans., p. 130). Our reading is to be regarded as the better one, though not a few authorities insert the article, and interpret "the Feast" to mean the Feast of Passover.

The time-limits are John 4:35, which was in Tebeth (January), and John 6:4, which bring us to the next Passover in Nisan (April), i.e., an interval of four months, the year being an intercalary one with the month VeAdar (and Adar) added, or, as we should say, with two months of March. The only feast which falls in this interval is the Feast of Purim, and it is with this that the best modern opinion identifies the feast of our text. It was kept on the 14th of Adar (March), in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the plots of Haman, and took its name from the lots cast by him (Esther 3:7; Esther 9:24 et seq.). It was one of the most popular feasts (Jos. Ant. xi. 6, ? 13), and was characterised by festive rejoicings, presents, and gifts to the poor. At the same time it was not one of the great feasts, and while the writer names the Passover (John 2:13; John 6:4; John 13:1), the Feast of Tabernacles (John 7:2), and even that of the Dedication (John x 22), this has no further importance in the narrative than to account for the fact of Jesus being again in Jerusalem. (Comp. Introduction: Chronological Harmony of the Gospels, p. 35) . . .

Verses 1-47. -

1. Christ proved, by signs and wonders and testimonies, to be Source of life. Verses 1-9. -

(1) A sign on a paralyzed body and an unsusceptible soul. Verse 1. - The journey to Jerusalem is said to have taken place at the time of "a feast," or "the feast of the Jews." After these things (μετα ταῦτα). Suggesting a number of events, not necessarily connected with each other. (For the latter idea of a period expressed by μετα τοῦτο see John 2:12 and John 11:7, 11; for μετα ταῦτα, see John 6:1 and John 21:1. etc.) There was the feast of the Jews. Now, "the feast" of the Jews could hardly be any other than the second Passover, while John 6:4 would indicate a third. "The feast" referred to in John 4:45 undoubtedly means the first Passover. "A feast" would leave the question open, though by no means excluding positively the second Passover, as the anarthrousness of the word might be chosen with a view to call special attention to it. However, the indefinite ἑορτη has been identified by commentators with every feast in the calendar, so there can be no final settlement of the problem. If the feast be the Passover, then our Lord's ministry lasted a little more than three years. If not, it must be one or other of the feasts that elapsed between the Passovers of ch. 2 and ch. 6 Edersheim, with many others, refuses to accept any chronological hint in John 4:35, and therefore throws the journey from Jerusalem to Galilee a few weeks after the first Passover, in the early summer, and supposes that Jesus returned to the unnamed feast in the autumn. Several critics say of John 4:35, one part of the sentence must be parabolical and the other literal, and that the disciples might be anticipating a spiritual harvest after four months, and Jesus drew from the physically ripening corn fields his comparison. This seems to me entirely contrary to our Lord's ordinary method; and that the disciples were in too carnal a mood to be credited with an anticipation of spiritual results in Samaria at all. Those who think that John 4:35 does give a hint of four months preceding harvest, place the journey between the middle of December and the middle of January. To my mind there is consequently no difficulty in imagining that when those four months should have been spent, and before the regular calling and appointment of the twelve apostles, our Lord should have gone up to the feast - one of the feasts which did summon the adult men to the metropolis. This is the view of Irenaeus, Luther, Cretins, Lampe, Neander, Hengstenberg, Conder, and many others. Wieseler, Hug, Meyer Lance, Godet, Weiss, Farrar, Watkins, think that the Feast of Purim, celebrated on the 15th of Adar (or March) (2 Macc. 15:36), in commemoration of the deliverance of the people from the evil intention of Haman (Esther 9:21, etc.), was that national fast and feast which Jesus thus honoured. Purim was not one of the divinely appointed festivals, but it is also stated that the Lord undoubtedly attended one of the national and recently appointed festivals, that of Dedication (John 10:22). The more serious objection is that it could, if desired, have been celebrated quite as well in Galilee as in Jerusalem, and that the method of celebration seemed contrary to the whole spirit of the Master, and the whole tone of the discourse which followed. It is said that part of the ritual of the feast was the free and frequent gifts made spontaneously by one to another. Westcott prefers the autumn Feast of Trumpets as more suitable on several grounds than the Passover,

(1) because of the absence of the article, - this, however, is very problematical (see Tischendorf, 8th edit.); . . .

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Greek
Some time later
Μετὰ (Meta)
Preposition
Strong's 3326: (a) gen: with, in company with, (b) acc: (1) behind, beyond, after, of place, (2) after, of time, with nouns, neut. of adjectives.

there was
ἦν (ēn)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

a feast
ἑορτὴ (heortē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1859: A festival, feast, periodically recurring. Of uncertain affinity; a festival.

of the
τῶν (tōn)
Article - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

Jews,
Ἰουδαίων (Ioudaiōn)
Adjective - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 2453: Jewish. From Iouda; Judaean, i.e. Belonging to Jehudah.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

Jesus
Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.

went up
ἀνέβη (anebē)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 305: To go up, mount, ascend; of things: I rise, spring up, come up. From ana and the base of basis; to go up.

to
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

Jerusalem.
Ἱεροσόλυμα (Hierosolyma)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 2414: The Greek form of the Hebrew name: Jerusalem. Of Hebrew origin; Hierosolyma


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