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Healing lessons from the pool of Bethesda

By Susan Macfarlane

From the June 2015 issue of The Christian Science Journal

It can be tempting , when we come across a Bible story we are familiar with, to gloss over it rather quickly, thinking we have already learned all it has to teach us. For me, one such story was that of Christ Jesus’ healing of the impotent man who was waiting for the “troubling of the water” at the pool of Bethesda (see John 5 ).