# Healing on the Sabbath - The Gospels

An episode of [Kids Bible in a Year with Julia Jeffress Sadler](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696638708), 26 Feb 2024, 12 min.

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Join Julia Jeffress Sadler as she takes us on an incredible adventure in Episode 161. In Jerusalem, a man who had been sick for 38 years lay near a pool called Bethesda, hoping to be healed. One day, Jesus saw him and told him to get up and walk, and the man was instantly healed. The Jewish leaders were upset because Jesus healed on the Sabbath, a day of rest, but Jesus explained that He was doing His Father, God's work, showing that He was sent by God to do amazing things. Sign up to receive Kids Bible in a Year devotionals in your inbox every weekday: https://www.kidsbibleinayear.com/ Get ready to experience the Bible designed specifically for children with the official KidsBibleinaYear.com podcast, led by Julia Jeffress Sadler. This captivating audio series presents the age-old wisdom of the Bible in an engaging format that will captivate your kids. Each episode Julia translates biblical teachings into real-life applications, making Bible comprehension a breeze for young minds. And if you want more Christian resources and content, you can download the Pray.com app. Pray.com is the digital destination for faith, offering over 5,000 daily prayers, meditations, bedtime Bible stories, and cinematic stories inspired by the Bible. For more resources on how to live a successful Christian life, visit Julia Jeffress Sadler's website at https://ptv.org/julia/. This episode is sponsored by Little Passports. Visit LittlePassports.com/blessed and use promo code BLESSED to receive 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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[0:00] Speaker 1: Jesus said to him, Arise, take up your mat and walk.
[0:04] Speaker 1: John 5, 8. Dear God, thank you for seeing us
[0:09] Speaker 1: and never leaving us to figure out this life on
[0:11] Speaker 1: our own. We are sorry for the times we want
[0:14] Speaker 1: to do things our own way and in our time
[0:17] Speaker 1: without asking you first.
[0:19] Speaker 2: Give us the faith.
[0:21] Speaker 1: And the patience we need to wait on you when
[0:23] Speaker 1: times are hard. In Jesus' name, amen.
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[1:02] Speaker 4: Healing on the Sabbath. In our last story, we learned
[1:07] Speaker 4: about how Jesus healed a woman with a bleeding issue
[1:11] Speaker 4: and raised Jairus' daughter. In this story, Jesus will be
[1:16] Speaker 4: challenged again for healing a man who has been sick
[1:19] Speaker 4: for 38 years on the Sabbath, as inspired by the Gospels.
[1:28] Speaker 1: Hi guys, it's Julianne Thompson, guest hosting for Julia Jeffress Sadler.
[1:33] Speaker 1: And I'm back for another story from the Kids Bible
[1:35] Speaker 1: in a Year podcast. Thanks for being here. Today, we
[1:40] Speaker 1: are diving into the pool of Bethesda. Well, not really.
[1:44] Speaker 1: But we're talking about something special that happened there and why,
[1:48] Speaker 1: once again, God's ways are always better than ours. Let's
[1:53] Speaker 1: listen in.
[1:56] Speaker 4: There was a man who had been sick for 38 years,
[2:00] Speaker 4: which was most of his life. He lay on his
[2:03] Speaker 4: bed near a special pool called Bethesda in Jerusalem. An
[2:09] Speaker 4: angel would come to this pool and stir the water.
[2:13] Speaker 4: The people believed whoever entered the water first would be healed.
[2:17] Speaker 4: There was only one problem. The sick man was never first.
[2:23] Speaker 4: There was always someone who would get to the.
[2:26] Speaker 2: Water before him. But he kept.
[2:28] Speaker 4: Waiting for his turn. One day, Jesus went to Bethesda
[2:34] Speaker 4: and saw the sick man. He asked the man, Do
[2:37] Speaker 4: you want to get better? The sick man said, I do,
[2:42] Speaker 4: but I'm never the first one in the pool after
[2:45] Speaker 4: the water is stirred.
[2:47] Speaker 2: So Jesus told the man, Get up and walk. The
[2:52] Speaker 2: man stood up, and he was no longer sick. He
[2:56] Speaker 2: could walk again. Jesus had healed him.
[2:59] Speaker 4: The man picked up his bed, and began to walk
[3:02] Speaker 4: away with it. Jesus slipped into a crowd of people.
[3:07] Speaker 4: Jewish leaders spotted the man carrying his rolled-up bed. They
[3:11] Speaker 4: were angry with him because it was illegal to carry
[3:14] Speaker 4: bedrolls on the Sabbath. The Jewish people believed the Sabbath
[3:18] Speaker 4: was a holy day of rest.
[3:19] Speaker 2: No one could work on the Sabbath.
[3:22] Speaker 4: The Jewish leader thought the man was working, so they
[3:25] Speaker 4: stopped him and said, Who told you to work?
[3:29] Speaker 2: A man who healed me. He's gone now. The next
[3:34] Speaker 2: time the man saw Jesus, they were in the temple.
[3:38] Speaker 4: Jesus said, For the first time, the man realized it
[3:46] Speaker 4: was Jesus speaking to him.
[3:49] Speaker 2: Jesus had healed him.
[3:50] Speaker 4: The man ran off to tell the Jewish leaders all
[3:53] Speaker 4: about it. However, the Jewish leaders were not happy. They
[3:58] Speaker 4: thought it was illegal for Jesus to heal people on
[4:01] Speaker 4: the Sabbath.
[4:02] Speaker 2: It was work. But Jesus said to the leaders, God
[4:06] Speaker 2: works on the Sabbath. So will I.
[4:11] Speaker 4: The leaders wanted to kill Jesus because he didn't follow
[4:15] Speaker 4: their rules. He thinks he is the same as God.
[4:19] Speaker 4: He thinks God is his father. Jesus said, I do what.
[4:24] Speaker 2: My father God tells me.
[4:26] Speaker 4: God loves His Son and gives Him the power to
[4:29] Speaker 4: do amazing things. God has made the Son judge of
[4:34] Speaker 4: everyone because we are equal. If you don't listen to
[4:38] Speaker 4: the Son, then you don't listen to God either. Someday
[4:42] Speaker 4: God will judge everyone. But not everyone will hear. If
[4:48] Speaker 4: you hear the voice of God's Son, you will live forever.
[4:53] Speaker 4: I can do nothing by myself. But I go to
[4:56] Speaker 4: God and I do what he wants because he sent
[5:00] Speaker 4: me here. If I speak about myself, you will think
[5:03] Speaker 4: I am lying. But John the Baptist told the truth
[5:06] Speaker 4: about me. And you didn't listen to him either. You
[5:10] Speaker 4: have seen me heal sick people and perform all.
[5:13] Speaker 2: Kinds of miracles.
[5:15] Speaker 4: But you still do not believe in me. Even Moses
[5:20] Speaker 4: wrote about me. You read about me in scripture all
[5:23] Speaker 4: the time. but you don't believe what Moses wrote.
[5:27] Speaker 2: So how will you believe what I say?
[5:37] Speaker 1: How powerful the words of Jesus are. Just like when
[5:41] Speaker 1: he told that storm to calm down, today he tells
[5:44] Speaker 1: a man whose legs don't work to get up and walk.
[5:50] Speaker 1: We open today's story at a place called the Pool
[5:53] Speaker 1: of Bethesda. This pool was filled with water, and many
[5:58] Speaker 1: people who were sick or unable to walk would lay
[6:01] Speaker 1: by the water. They believed that when the water was stirred,
[6:07] Speaker 1: it would heal them. The Bible tells of a man
[6:10] Speaker 1: who could not walk and had been lying on his
[6:12] Speaker 1: bed by that pool for 38 years. That sure is
[6:17] Speaker 1: a long time. When Jesus saw this man, he must
[6:21] Speaker 1: have felt compassion on him. Why do you think he
[6:24] Speaker 1: chose that man out of all the people at the pool?
[6:28] Speaker 1: We're not sure. Maybe Jesus saw that he was so
[6:32] Speaker 1: very sad and without any hope, and he wanted to
[6:35] Speaker 1: give him a reason to live. Then Jesus asked an
[6:39] Speaker 1: interesting question. He asked this man if he wanted to
[6:43] Speaker 1: get better. Now, this might have been because the man
[6:46] Speaker 1: looked so down and discouraged. Maybe he had given up.
[6:50] Speaker 1: Maybe he just wasn't even trying anymore because there was
[6:54] Speaker 1: no use. Maybe he even wanted to die. The man
[6:59] Speaker 1: told Jesus his problem. He did want to get better,
[7:04] Speaker 1: but he couldn't get the water at the right time.
[7:07] Speaker 1: When the pool was stirred, people were always getting in
[7:11] Speaker 1: front of him. He didn't have anyone there who could
[7:14] Speaker 1: carry him and get him there in time. There's a
[7:18] Speaker 1: good lesson here for us. You see, the man could
[7:21] Speaker 1: only think of one way to solve this problem. Get
[7:25] Speaker 1: to the water faster. Little did he know the answer
[7:29] Speaker 1: to this healing was actually the person standing right in
[7:32] Speaker 1: front of him. Did you know we do this sometimes?
[7:36] Speaker 1: When we have a problem, we think we know just
[7:39] Speaker 1: what we need to make everything better. We want whatever
[7:43] Speaker 1: is wrong to be fixed immediately. And then the way
[7:46] Speaker 1: we think it should be fixed. And when it isn't,
[7:49] Speaker 1: we get discouraged and impatient. But what if Jesus is
[7:54] Speaker 1: standing in front of us saying, I have a better way.
[7:59] Speaker 1: This is why it's always so important to go to
[8:01] Speaker 1: God with our problems. Talk to him, tell him about
[8:05] Speaker 1: what is wrong and ask him questions. If you're confused,
[8:10] Speaker 1: mad or sad, tell him. But then tell him you
[8:15] Speaker 1: want his best plan for you and try to listen
[8:19] Speaker 1: for his voice. Be patient and let God handle your
[8:23] Speaker 1: problem in his timing, which is always perfect, by the way.
[8:29] Speaker 1: After the man explains his problem, Jesus simply told him
[8:33] Speaker 1: to take up his bed and walk. And that was that.
[8:37] Speaker 1: This sick man must have had faith because if he didn't,
[8:41] Speaker 1: he wouldn't have even tired. He had been lying on
[8:46] Speaker 1: this bed, unable to walk for almost his whole life.
[8:49] Speaker 1: So to even attempt to stand up and walk, that
[8:53] Speaker 1: took a lot of faith. But here came the Pharisees
[8:58] Speaker 1: again with their pointing fingers and mean looks. When they
[9:03] Speaker 1: found out it was Jesus who had healed this man,
[9:05] Speaker 1: they once again started accusing him of breaking God's law
[9:10] Speaker 1: that said no work could be done on the Sabbath.
[9:14] Speaker 1: But these leaders did not understand that Jesus was God's
[9:17] Speaker 1: son and that he was equal to God. They didn't
[9:21] Speaker 1: know who they were talking to. They had faith. Jesus
[9:27] Speaker 1: told them that if they didn't believe what Moses said
[9:29] Speaker 1: about him, who John the Baptist said he was, or
[9:33] Speaker 1: even any of the miracles they had seen do with
[9:36] Speaker 1: their own eyes, why would they believe anything he said?
[9:40] Speaker 1: These leaders believed. were so used to giving honor and
[9:44] Speaker 1: attention to men on earth for all their great works
[9:47] Speaker 1: and all the laws they kept. They were so focused
[9:51] Speaker 1: on being perfect that they missed the presence of God.
[9:55] Speaker 1: It's as if their eyes were blinded. Let's be sure
[10:00] Speaker 1: to keep our eyes open wide today, looking for God
[10:04] Speaker 1: all around us in creation, the people we love, and
[10:07] Speaker 1: the way he takes.
[10:09] Speaker 3: Care of us.
[10:10] Speaker 1: Well, thanks for being here. I hope you'll return next
[10:13] Speaker 1: time to say goodbye to John the Baptist and hear
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