Whenever  Jesus appears, there is also salvation. If he sees a tax-collector seated at the counter, he makes him an apostle and an evangelist; if he is buried among the dead, he raises them; he gives sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf. When he walks around the pools, it is not to inspect the buildings but to heal the sick.

- St Cyril of Jerusalem, Homily on the Paralytic by the Pool.