# General Information:

Verse 5 introduces the man lying beside the pool to the story. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/writing-participants]])

# was there

"was at the Bethesda pool" ([John 5:1](../05/01.md))

# thirty-eight years

"38 years" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers]])