"I have no one, Sir," the afflicted man answered, "to put me into the Bath when there is a troubling of the water, and, while I am getting to it, some one else steps down before me."
There is in Jerusalem, near the Sheep-gate, a Bath with five colonnades round it. It is called in Hebrew 'Bethesda.'
In these colonnades a large number of afflicted people were lying--blind, lame, and crippled.
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Jesus saw the man lying there, and, finding that he had been in this state a long time, said to him: "Do you wish to be cured?"
Seeing that, while we were still powerless, Christ, in God's good time, died on behalf of the godless.
Do not you know that on a race-course, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.