Motif
Angelic troubling of healing water
angelic_troubling_of_healing_water
A motif of the Divine Intervention and Guidance family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
christian apocrypha
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The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Complete CHAPTER II. / CHAPTER III. / CHAPTER IV. / CHAP. V.; lines 5807-6042 confidence: high
An unnamed Jew testifies that he lay thirty-eight years by the sheep-pool at Jerusalem, waiting for an angel to trouble the water; Jesus commanded him to rise, take up his bed, and walk, and he was healed immediately. The cure is said to have occurred on the sabbath, prompting the Jews' accusation.
The sheep-pool testimony describes an angel troubling the water at a certain time, after which the first person entering is healed.
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