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NASB | John 5:2 ¶ Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 5:2 ¶ Now in Jerusalem, near the Sheep Gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew (Jewish Aramaic) Bethesda, having five porticoes (alcoves, colonnades). |
Subject: date the Gospel of John was written |
Bible Note: Emmaus; this is a copy of what I wrote to Rowdy a few days ago about the same subject. This is just guess work on my part; but from all the sources I've read, all his writtings were written somewhere around the year 90. This would be near the end or after his exile on Patmos where he recieved the vision. In chapter 1 Jesus gives him the command to (Rev 1:19) "Therefore write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after these things. All of the references I've read say that this refers to 1:1-19 (have seen), the letters to the churches (which are) and the rest of Rev (will take place). It seems to me that His gospel could fit the discription of what was. The gospel cleary shows Jesus in the same light as John saw Him in the vision. His espistles and the leters to the churches (that are) and the rest of Rev (which is to come). I have not found any source that agree with me so that is why I'm just guessing but it fits. The discription John gives of Jesus in his gosple may indicate a perspective recieved after he received the vision on Patmos. What do you think? I can see your point of view based on John 5:2. But I think the present tense of that verse can be explain by literary style. When we tell a recount of a past experience we will often slip into and out of present or past tense. For example; I was walking down the street last tuesday and there is this man standing beside the road. He was down on his luck, So he asked me for some money, I am standing there talking to him when a car came speeding past us and splashed us with water, We are standing there soaking wet when a police car chasing the first car splashed us again. this is of coarse a fiction account but it demostrates my point of how we can slip into and out of tenses. I do not know if this is what was going on in John 5:2 but it is possible. I may be wrong it would not be the first time but this is my "current" opinion about this topic. |