“Do You Want to Be Well?”

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Jesus, we see in today’s Gospel reading from John 5, was not the only one of His time who didn’t answer questions directly.

It was a simple question that He posed to the man in the pool: “Do you want to be well?” And instead of responding with, “Well, duh! Of course! Wouldn’t you?” or something a bit more polite, the man whines and moans about h...