John 5:7

The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, 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 knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to be made well?”

8Jesus said to him, “Arise, take up your mat, and walk.”

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Cross References

Psalms 72:12For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

John 5:3In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralysed, waiting for the moving of the water;

1 Corinthians 9:24Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives 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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