What did the impotent man at the pool indicate in John's Gospel?
The impotent man at the pool indicated a need for cleansing. Sin is mentioned in the same passage, and his being next to the pool pointed to cleansing. This fits John's Gospel emphasis on the cleansing that people need in that scene.
Les explains that sin is mentioned in this section, and the impotent man beside the pool indicated a need for cleansing. That scene highlights cleansing, but the following account of Lazarus moves to death: Lazarus had lain in the grave four days. Using 1 Peter's analogy that a day is as a thousand years, Les connects Lazarus's four days to Israel being spiritually dead 4,000 years, going back to Abraham, and then being brought back to life at the end of that period.