In today’s Gospel, we hear the account of how Jesus Christ healed the paralytic at the Sheep’s Pool. This miracle took place during the feast of Pascha in Jerusalem, when many people from all Judea had gathered in the city. In Jerusalem there was a pool called the Sheep Pool, located near the temple and…
For the Fourth Sunday after Pascha: A Teaching of the Blessed Kirill of Turov on the Paralytic at the Sheep Pool, and how our Lord Jesus Christ healed him by His word. Unmeasurable is the height of the heavens, unsearchable the depths of the abyss, and incomprehensible is the mystery of God’s providence. For great…
On the third Sunday after Pascha, the Church commemorates the healing by the Lord of the paralytic—a man who had long lain helpless on a stretcher near the Sheep Pool in Jerusalem. This miracle, described in the Gospel according to John, is now remembered because, as commentators on Scripture conclude, it took place shortly after…