That You May Believe | The Gospel of John || In the beginning verses of chapter 5 Jesus heals a man who had been ill for 38 years. The remarkable thing we see in this moment is that this man was not looking to Jesus for salvation, in fact he was looking to something else entirely for healing, and yet Jesus showed mercy to this man by approaching him. What a sweet reminder for us! As Paul says in Romans 5, ‘God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.’