John 5:7

A Conservative Version

The infirmed man answered him, Sir, I have no man so that when the water is agitated he might put me into the pool, but while I am coming another steps down before me.

Cross References

Psalm 72:12

For he will deliver a needy man when he cries, and a poor man, who has no helper.

Deuteronomy 32:36

For LORD will judge his people, and regrets for his servants, when he sees that [their] power is gone, and there is none [remaining], shut up or left at large.

1 Corinthians 9:24

Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it.

Psalm 142:4

Look on [my] right hand, and see, for there is no man who knows me. Refuge has failed me. No man cares for my soul.

Romans 5:6

For while we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the impious.

John 5:3

In these lay a great multitude of those who are feeble, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the movement of the water.

John 5:2

Now there is in Jerusalem by the place pertaining to sheep, a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches.

John 5:4

For a heavenly agent went down at a certain time into the pool, and agitated the water. Therefore the first man who stepped in after the agitation of the water became well from whatever affliction he had.

John 5:6

When Jesus saw this man laying down, and knew that he fares now a long time, he says to him, Do thou desire to become well?