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Christ healing the sick man at Bethesda
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Sick people wait at the pool of Bethesda until an angel comes to stir the water. A man who has been ill for thirty-eight years and has no one to carry him to the water lies in the foreground and is healed by Christ. Christ gives him the order to pick up his mat and walk. On the left the healed man walks with his mat on his back past the temple. Two Pharisees rebuke him because he carries a mat on the Sabbath. Below the image a reference in Latin to the Bible text in John 5:2. This print is part of an album.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineChristus geneest de zieke van Betzata (Bethesda). 1572 - 1576. Johannes Wierix. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
