John 5:7
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.
King James Version with Apocrypha
In The King James Version
In Context
8Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
Cross References
Psalms 72:12For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
John 5:3In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
1 Corinthians 9:24Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
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 →