John 5:7

The ill man said in answer, Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath when the water is moving; and while I am on the way down some other person gets in before me.

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In The King James Version

The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

In Context

6When Jesus saw him there on the floor it was clear to him that he had been now a long time in that condition, and so he said to the man, Is it your desire to get well?

8Jesus said to him, Get up, take your bed and go.

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Cross References

Psalms 72:12For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper.

John 5:3In these doorways there were a great number of people with different diseases: some unable to see, some without the power of walking, some with wasted bodies.

1 Corinthians 9:24Do you not see that in a running competition all take part, but only one gets the reward? So let your minds be fixed on the reward.

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 →

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