...to be healed, but here it was thirty-eight years later and he was still in transition. John 5:3-5: In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the move of the water. For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water:...

...27506 Text.indd 245 In the Bible is a story of a pool called Bethesda where the sick went to be healed. "For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water, so that whoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever...

...Central Park statue and to John 5:2—9, the biblical passage that lies behind the title of the book. 4 For an angel went down at a certain season into...had. 5 And a certain man -was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time...

...sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them." And again in the case of a pool: "An Angel went down at a certain season into the pool,...the water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever 4. For a modern reprint of the 182.6 essay as well as the subsequent essay see John Henry Newman, Two...