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John 5:3-4

In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, ​waiting for the moving
of the water​. ​For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the
water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of
whatsoever disease he had.

Includes:
2nd century: Syriac Peshitta, Diatessaron, Tertullian
3rd century: Some Bohairic Coptic manuscripts
4th century: Vulgate, Ethiopic, Old Latin a, Ambrose, Augustine, Chrysostom, Jerome, Cassian
5th century: A, C​margin​, Old Latin b, e, ff​2​, Palestinian Syriac
6th century: 078, Old Latin j
7th century: Family 1, Family 13, Old Latin r​1​, (Harklean Syriac with asterisks)
8th century: ​L, ​0233, (047 with asterisks), Old Latin aur, All other manuscripts, All Lectionaries
9th century: K, Δ, Θ, Ψ, 063, (Λ, Π with asterisks), Slavonic, All other manuscripts, All
Lectionaries
10th century: (S, 1074 with asterisks), X​comm​, All other manuscripts, All Lectionaries
11th century and beyond: Old Latin c, (2174 with asterisks) All other manuscripts, All
Lectionaries

Augustine Tractate 17 on John section 3: For on a sudden the water was seen troubled, and
that by which it was troubled was not seen. You may believe that this was wont to be done by
angelic virtue, yet not without some mystery being implied. After the water was troubled, the one
who was able cast himself in, and he alone was healed: whoever went in after that one, did so
in vain.

Chrysostom Homily 36 on John: And an angel came down and trouble the water and endued it
with a healing power, that the Jews might learn that much more could the Lord of Angels heal
the diseases of the soul...

Ambrose on the Holy Spirit Book 1 Chapter 7 (Section 88): You read, too, in the Gospel that the
Angel descended at the appointed time into the pool and troubled the water, and he who first
went down into the pool was made whole. What did the Angel declare in this type but the
descent of the Holy Spirit, which was to come to pass in our day, and should consecrate the
waters when invoked by the prayers of the priest? That Angel, then, was a herald of the Holy
Spirit, inasmuch as by means of the grace of the Spirit medicine was to be applied to our
infirmities of soul and mind.

Tertullian on Baptism Chapter 5: An angel, by his intervention, was wont to stir the pool at
Bethsaida. They who were complaining of ill-health used to watch for him; for whoever had been
the first to descent into them, after him washing, ceased to complain.
Tatian’s Diatessaron Section 22:12-13, “...waiting for the moving of the water. And the angel
from time to time went down into the place of bathing, and moved the water; and the first that
went down after the moving of the water, every pain that he had was healed.”

Excludes:
2nd century: Sahidic Coptic
3rd century: P66, P75, Some Bohairic Coptic manuscripts
4th century: Aleph, B, ​Some Vulgate manuscripts
5th century: C*, ​D (and its Latin side d)​, T, ​W, ​Curetonian Syriac, Armenian, Georgian
6th century: ​Old Latin f, ​q
7th century:
8th century:​ L, ​Old Latin l
9th century:​ 33
10th century: 0141
11th century and beyond: 157

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