Chris' prayer: Mary Mary's "Wade in the Water"

A little interesting tidbit for tonight's prayer. The chorus of this song is based off of John 5:4. But don't go trying to look that up in the New American Bible, because it isn't there. John 5:4 is just a footnote, which reads:

Toward the end of the second century in the West and among the fourth-century Greek Fathers, an additional verse was known: "For [from time to time] an angel of the Lord used to come down into the pool; and the water was stirred up, so the first one to get in [after the stirring of the water] was healed of whatever disease afflicted him." The angel was a popular explanation of the turbulence and the healing powers attributed to it. This verse is missing from all early Greek manuscripts and the earliest versions, including the original Vulgate. Its vocabulary is markedly non-Johannine.

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