Verse 7

The ill man said in answer, Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath when the water is moving; and while I am on the way down some other person gets in before me.

Referenced Verses

• Deut 32:36 : 36 For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants; when he sees that their power is gone, there is no one, shut up or free.
• Ps 142:4 : 4 Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul.
• 1 Cor 9:24 : 24 Do you not see that in a running competition all take part, but only one gets the reward? So let your minds be fixed on the reward.
• 2 Cor 1:8-9 : 8 For it is our desire that you may not be without knowledge of our trouble which came on us in Asia, that the weight of it was very great, more than our power, so that it seemed that we had no hope even of life: 9 Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead: 10 Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;
• Ps 72:12 : 12 For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper.
• Rom 5:6 : 6 For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers.
• John 5:3 : 3 In these doorways there were a great number of people with different diseases: some unable to see, some without the power of walking, some with wasted bodies.