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|title=The Healing at the Pool of Bethesda: a Pinpointed Lunar Sabbath?
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|description=Our Messiah's healing of a lame man at the Pool of Bethesda in John 5 is often cited as a 'Pinpointed Lunar Sabbath'.
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Our Messiah's healing of a lame man at the Pool of Bethesda in John 5 is often cited as a [[Pinpointed Lunar Sabbath]].

This page presents the rationale for considering it as a Pinpointed Lunar Sabbath, and discusses several objections. 

==Rationale==
Our Messiah went up to Jerusalem for a Feast Day (John 5:1) and healed a lame man on the Sabbath:
<blockquote>And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
(Joh 5:5-9)</blockquote>
Since the Feast Day was also the Sabbath, this proves that the Sabbaths that month had to be on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th days of the month.

==Objections==
It must first be established which Feast Day He was attending.  In the book of John, it says in Chapter 2 that He traveled to Jerusalem for the Passover<ref>John 2:23</ref>, and later in Chapter 7 he goes up to the Feast of Tabernacles<ref>John 7:1 establishes that it was the Feast of Tabernacles, v14 describes when He went up to the Feast</ref>.  The only Pilgrimage Feast between Passover and Tabernacles, which required Him to go up to Jerusalem, was [[Pentecost]].  This is the Feast spoken of in John 5:1.

Because both mainstream Christians and Lunar Sabbatarians agree that [[Pentecost]] falls on the [[Sunday_Pentecost|First Day of the Week]], the Sabbath referred to in John 5:9 was not a Feast day in question but was the day before.  It therefore cannot be "pinpointed" as falling on the fifteenth of the month. 

==References==
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