“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
Look and see, there is no one at my right hand; no one is concerned for me. I have no refuge; no one cares for my life.
For he will deliver the needy who cry out, the afflicted who have no one to help.
Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.
When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.
The Lord will vindicate his people and relent concerning his servants when he sees their strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free.