John 5:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The ill man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am making my way someone else steps down ahead of me.”

Cross References

Psalm 142:4

Look on my right hand and see: there is no one who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no one cares for me.

Psalm 72:12

For he delivers the needy when they call, the poor and those who have no helper.

John 5:2

Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes.

John 5:3

In these lay many ill, blind, lame, and paralyzed people.

John 5:6

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”

Romans 5:6

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

1 Corinthians 9:24

Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win it.

Deuteronomy 32:36

Indeed, the Lord will vindicate his people, have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, neither bond nor free remaining.