Online Bible Commentary on John 5:5. And a certain man was there, who had been thirty and eight years in his infirmity.

Leviticus 24:3. Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: [it shall be] a statute for ever in your generations.


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