John 5:7

“I have no one, Sir,” the sick man answered, “to put me into the bath when there is a troubling of the water, and, while I am getting to it, someone else steps down 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

6Jesus saw the man lying there, and, finding that he had been in this state a long time, said to him, “Do you wish to be cured?”

8“Stand up,” said Jesus, “take up your mat, and walk.”

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Cross References

Psalms 72:12For he saves the poor when he cries, the helpless and the downtrodden.

John 5:3In these colonnades a large number of sick people were lying – blind, lame, and crippled.

1 Corinthians 9:24Don’t you know that on a racecourse, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way 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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