Verse 7

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming, another steps down before me."

Referenced Verses

• Deut 32:36 : 36 For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that [their] power is gone, There is none [remaining], shut up or left at large.
• Ps 142:4 : 4 Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.
• 1 Cor 9:24 : 24 Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
• 2 Cor 1:8-9 : 8 For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life. 9 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, 10 who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
• Ps 72:12 : 12 For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.
• Rom 5:6 : 6 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
• John 5:3 : 3 In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;