How come Jesus only healed one man at the Pool of Bethesda?

Man! This blessed my socks off when I came across it. I like reading, stuyding and writing my own blog entries and not just repeating what other people teach. But when I came across this I figured I best post it, since this man, Curry Blake is out there DOING this very thing. Anyway, it is based on John 5, and seems how lately I’ve been thinking about the “hyper-sovereignty of God” that is taught out there, I really viewed this in a different light than I had before.

I can’t count on my hands on how many times people bring this passage up to argue with me that Jesus picks some to be healed and ignores other people. Anyway, check out this response, it’s from the Q & As of John G. Lake Ministries’ website. I might post another one or two of his responses I really liked in order to challenge traditional sacred cows in the Church on the subject, but this one challenged me too.

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In John chapter 5 we are given the story of the healing at the Pool of Bethesda. Please remember, the apostle John himself said that if everything Jesus did had been written down, the world could not contain the books. First, we are not told how many Jesus healed at the pool. We are simply told the details of one particular healing so that we can learn something from it. We are also not told that Jesus ONLY healed the one man. So any speculation is just that, speculation.

I have heard preachers describe how Jesus stepped over this person and around another person just to get to that one man. All of that is made up and added to the Bible. The very Scripture people use to try to prove that God/Jesus picks and chooses who They will heal, proves just the opposite.

At the beginning of John chapter 5, it points out that the Pool of Bethesda was a well-known place of healing and that at a certain season (most scholars believe that season to be the Passover Season which would line up with the Biblical doctrine of Healing in the Atonement) an angel would come down and “trouble” the water of the pool. When that happened, THE FIRST PERSON THAT GOT IN, GOT HEALED OF WHATSOEVER (disease/sickness/malady) THEY HAD.

• This proves that God did not determine who got healed, when they got healed or of what they got healed from.
• This proves God does not dictate the time of a person’s healing (There goes the “It’s not God’s timing” doctrine).
• This proves that God did not determine that some people should keep their illness until they had learned something (There goes the “I’m sick because God’s trying to teach me something” doctrine).
• This proves that God does not will some to be healed and for others to stay sick (There goes the “It’s not God’s will to heal everybody” doctrine). Notice that there is no mention of repentance from sin. This story proves that the Passover (Jesus) is our total freedom from sickness and disease.