John 5:7

The sick man replied, “Sir, I do not have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. When I come, another 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

6When Jesus saw him lying there, and after he realized that he had been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healthy?”

8Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.”

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Cross References

Psalms 72:12For he helps the needy person who cries out 1 and the poor person who has no other helper. 1

John 5:3A large number of people who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed were lying there. + 5:3 The best ancient copies omit the phrase, waiting for the moving of the water .

1 Corinthians 9:24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run the race, but that only one receives the prize? So run to win 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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