John 5:7

"Sir," answered the sick man, "I have no man to put me into the pool whenever the water is troubled; and while I am trying to come, some one else steps down before me."

Montgomery New Testament

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 there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to get well?"

8"Rise," said Jesus, "take up your bed and go walking away."

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Cross References

John 5:3It has five colonnades. In these there used to lie a great crowd of sick people - blind, lame, paralyzed.

1 Corinthians 9:24Do you not know that in a foot-race, though all run, only one receives the prize? So run 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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