John Trapp on John 5:5
Commentary or Exposition. Browse this work.
Read John 5. Compare commentaries on this chapter.
Source and publication rights
Text Creation Partnership. Public domain; TCP unrestricted text and encoding. Source edition.
Berean Blue opens December 1, 2026. Explore this passage in the app preview.
John5:5
Verſe 5. Thirty and eight years.] A long while to be in miſery: but what is this to eternity of extremity? Wee need have ſome thing to minde us of God, to bring us to Chriſt. King Alvered pray'd God to ſend him alwaies ſome ſickneſſe, whereby his body might be tamed, and he the better diſpoſed and affectioned to God-ward.
John Trapp, Commentary or Exposition, John 5:5. Public domain.
Permanent link. Source edition.