In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. |
In these days lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. |
In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered [many manuscripts do not contain remainder – “waiting for the moving of the waters; |
Here a great number of disabled people used to lie – the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. (Some lesser manuscripts – and they waited for the moving of the waters.) |
In these lay a great number of sick folk – some blind, some crippled, and some paralyzed (shriveled up) – [many manuscripts omit – waiting for the bubbling up of the water.] |
In these there was lying down a multitude of infirm people, of crippled people, of those, the members of whose bodies were withered, waiting for the stirring up of the water, |
Under these arches a great many sick people were in the habit of lying; some of them were blind, some lame, and some had withered limbs. (They used to wait there for the “moving of the water,” |
and in these there used to lie a great crowd of sick people, blind, crippled, paralyzed. [remainder omitted] |
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