{"id":41961,"date":"2026-10-14T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41961"},"modified":"2026-10-12T21:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T04:11:13","slug":"26-1015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-1015\/","title":{"rendered":"Question at Bethesda"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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On that particular day at the pool of Bethesda, Jesus was drawn to the main character of this miracle. John 5:5-7 (NLT) reads like this: \u201cWhen Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, \u2018Would you like to get well?\u2019 \u2018I can\u2019t, sir,\u2019 the man said, \u2018for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up.’\u201d<\/p>\n

What an odd question to ask a sick person. Why would Jesus pose such a question? The man was 38 years as an invalid. The duration of the condition prompted Jesus to ask, \u201cWould you like to get well?\u201d<\/p>\n

Getting well means getting up, getting a job, getting on with life. Do you really want to be healed? That\u2019s the question Jesus asked then. That\u2019s the question Jesus asks all of us. Do you want to get well?<\/em> Remember my friend, you are never alone.<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0Unbreakable Courage<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On that particular day at the pool of Bethesda, Jesus was drawn to the main character of this miracle. John 5:5-7 (NLT) reads like this: \u201cWhen Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, \u2018Would you like to get well?\u2019 \u2018I can\u2019t, sir,\u2019 the man said, \u2018for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up.’\u201d<\/p>\n

What an odd question to ask a sick person. Why would Jesus pose such a question? The man was 38 years as an invalid. The duration of the condition prompted Jesus to ask, \u201cWould you like to get well?\u201d<\/p>\n

Getting well means getting up, getting a job, getting on with life. Do you really want to be healed? That\u2019s the question Jesus asked then. That\u2019s the question Jesus asks all of us. Do you want to get well? Remember my friend, you are never alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41963,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41961\/revisions\/41963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}