One sabboth at Bethesda (John: 5)
There he was crippled like us waiting year after year, watching for some stirring of the waters, and someone to help him outcompete us all. And when…
Jean Morel
A humanities teacher and independent researcher, Jean Morel worked
pre-Covid in Israel and Palestine. This poem was inspired by a
revelation on a Bethesda visit of periodic geological ‘stirrings’ there,
by revelations of a callous classical world lacking even words for
compassion, and by faith healings since. Jean has worked in Australia, England, Italy, Palestine and his native New Zealand. In 2017 he worked on a summer dig near Nazareth.