The
Healing of the Paralytic
Third Sunday after Pascha
Kontakion (Tone 3)
Arouse, O Lord, with thy divine providence
my soul, sorely paralytic with divers sins and unseemly deeds, as
thou didst raise the paralytic of old, that being saved, I may
cry, saying, Glory to thy might, O compassionate Christ.
John 5:1-15.
After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem.
Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is
called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. 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. And a certain man
was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When
Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in
that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water
is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming,
another steppeth down before me.
Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and
walked: and on the same day was the sabbath. The Jews therefore
said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not
lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me,
Take up thy bed, and walk.
Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take
up thy bed, and walk?
And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had
conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.
Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him,
Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come
unto thee.
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had
made him whole.
This Icon is by the hand of Arlene Tilghman.
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