John 5:7

The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to throw me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming another gets in before me.”

Family 35 New Testament

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

6Seeing this man lying there and knowing that he had already been sick a long time, Jesus says to him, “Do you want to get well?”

8Jesus says to him, “Get up, pick up your pallet and walk!”

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Cross References

John 5:3In them a large number of sick people were lying—blind, lame, paralyzed—waiting for the moving of the water;

1 Corinthians 9:24Do you not know that in a stadium race all the runners run, but one gets the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.

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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