John 5:7

James Moffatt - New Testament

The invalid replied, "Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath, when the water is disturbed; and while I am getting down myself, someone else gets in before me."

Cross References

1 Corinthians 9:24

Do you not know that in a race, though all run, only one man gains the prize? Run so as to win the prize.

Romans 5:6

For when we were still in weakness, Christ died in due time for the ungodly. For the ungodly!

John 5:3

where a crowd of invalids used to lie, the blind, the lame, and folk with shrivelled limbs [waiting for the water to bubble.

John 5:2

Now in Jerusalem there is a bath beside the sheep-pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethzatha; it has five porticoes,

John 5:4

For an angel used to descend from time to time into the bath, and disturb the water; whereupon the first person who stepped in after the water was disturbed was restored to health, no matter what disease he had been afflicted with].

John 5:6

Jesus saw him lying, and knowing he had been ill for a long while he said to him, "Do you want your health restored?"