John 5:7
“Sir,” the sick man answered, “I don't have anyone to help me get into the pool when the water is stirred. While I'm trying to get there, someone always gets in before me.”
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In Context
8“Stand up, pick up your mat, and start walking!” Jesus told him.
Cross References
Psalms 72:12He will help the poor when they cry out to him, and help those who are suffering that have no one to support them.
John 5:3Crowds of sick people were lying in these porches—those who were blind, lame, or paralyzed.
1 Corinthians 9:24Wouldn't you agree that there are many runners in a race, but only one gets the prize? So run your best, so 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 →