According to Catholic scholars, what does John 5:6 tell of the "fully human" nature of Jesus?
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The Knox version says
Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had waited a long time; Hast thou a mind, he asked, to recover thy strength?
The DRA says
Him when Jesus had seen lying, and knew that he had been now a long time, he saith to him: Wilt thou be made whole?
The Vulgate says
Hunc autem cum vidisset Jesus jacentem, et cognovisset quia jam multum tempus haberet, dicit ei: Vis sanus fieri?
The word here, is cognosco which means 1
- I learn, get to know
- I am acquainted (with someone), I recognize, apprehend
- (in perfect tense) I know, perceive, understand
It is also the word used as the biblical metaphor for sex (e.g. Adam knew his wife). I don't think anyone ever translates this sense as "learn"
So it seems this question comes down to translation. Does that help?
There is the Greek as well, which looks like:
τοῦτον ἰδὼν ὁ Ἰησοῦς κατακείμενον, καὶ γνοὺς ὅτι πολὺν ἤδη χρόνον ἔχει, λέγει αὐτῷ: θέλεις ὑγιὴς γενέσθαι;
Unfortunately my grasp of Greek is much less than my grasp of Latin.
In any case, "learned" could simply be in the sense of "was informed that..." rather than the sense of acquiring knowledge that hadn't been there before.
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