John 5:1-9 (ANIV)
Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews.
Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralysed.
One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition or a long time, he asked him,
“Do you want to get well?”
“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no-one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred.
While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”
At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath…
DRAWING NOTES:
TIME OF DAY:
Indeterminate.
LIGHTING NOTES:
from above.
CHARACTERS PRESENT:
Jesus & some of his disciples behind him to the left. 2 Pharisees (in Blue/purple), various sick people & a kind woman tending the sick man on the reed mat. the man cured & leaping for joy, in green.
RESEARCH/ADDITIONAL NOTES:
When I drew this cartoon I had established what Jesus’ looked like & his costume, but hadn’t designed his what his disciples looked like or wore.