John 5:7

“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am on my way, someone else goes in before me.”

Berean Standard Bible

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 lying there and realized that he had spent a long time in this condition, He asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

8Then Jesus told him, “Get up, pick up your mat, and walk.”

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Cross References

Psalms 72:12For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.

John 5:3On these walkways lay a great number of the sick, the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed.

1 Corinthians 9:24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.

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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