John 5:7
Good News Translation
The sick man answered, "Sir, I don't have anyone here to put me in the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am trying to get in, somebody else gets there first."

New Revised Standard Version
The sick 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.”

Contemporary English Version
The man answered, "Sir, I don't have anyone to put me in the pool when the water is stirred up. I try to get in, but someone else always gets there first."

New American Bible
The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am on my way, someone else gets down there before me.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
The infirm man answered him: Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pond. For whilst I am coming, another goeth down before me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The infirm man answered him: Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pond. For whilst I am coming, another goeth down before me.

I have.

Deuteronomy 32:36 The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his servants: he shall see that their hand is weakened, and that they who were shut up have also failed, and they that remained are consumed.

Psalm 72:12 For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: and the needy that had no helper.

Psalm 142:4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was no one that would know me. Flight hath failed me: and there is no one that hath regard to my soul.

Romans 5:6 For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly?

2 Corinthians 1:8-10 For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation which came to us in Asia: that we were pressed out of measure above our strength, so that we were weary even of life. . . .

before.

John 5:4 And an angel of the Lord descended at certain times into the pond and the water was moved. And he that went down first into the pond after the motion of the water was made whole of whatsoever infirmity he lay under.

1 Corinthians 9:24 Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize. So run that you may obtain.

Context
The Pool of Bethesda
6Him when Jesus had seen lying, and knew that he had been now a long time, he saith to him: Wilt thou be made whole? 7The infirm man answered him: Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pond. For whilst I am coming, another goeth down before me. 8Jesus saith to him: Arise, take up thy bed and walk.…
Cross References
John 5:2
Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida, having five porches.

John 5:4
And an angel of the Lord descended at certain times into the pond and the water was moved. And he that went down first into the pond after the motion of the water was made whole of whatsoever infirmity he lay under.

John 5:6
Him when Jesus had seen lying, and knew that he had been now a long time, he saith to him: Wilt thou be made whole?

John 5:6
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