John 5:7
The infirmed man answered him, Sir, I have no man so that when the water is agitated he might put me into the pool, but while I am coming another steps down before me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8Jesus says to him, Arise, take up thy bed and walk.
Cross References
Psalms 72:12For he will deliver a needy man when he cries, and a poor man, who has no helper.
John 5:3In these lay a great multitude of those who are feeble, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the movement of the water.
1 Corinthians 9:24Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it.
Matthew Henry on John 5:2-17
The Cure at the Pool of Bethesda. 1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of… Read the whole commentary →