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In these (en tautais). In these five porches.
Lay (katekeito). Imperfect middle of katakeimai, to lie down, singular number because plēthos (multitude) is a collective substantive.
Withered (xērōn). Old adjective xēros for dry, wasted as the hand (Mat 12:10). The oldest and best manuscripts omit what the Textus Receptus adds here “waiting for the moving of the water” (ekdechomenon tēn tou hudatos kinēsin), a Western and Syrian addition to throw light on the word tarachthēi (is troubled) in Joh 5:7.