The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to lower me into the pool when the water is stirred; and while I am on my way, someone else gets down ahead of me.”
In context
5One man there had been ill for thirty-eight years. 6Jesus saw him lying there and knew he had been that way a long time. He said to him, “Do you want to get well?” 7The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to lower me into the pool when the water is stirred; and while I am on my way, someone else gets down ahead of me.” 8Jesus said to him, “Get up, pick up your mat, and walk.” 9And the man was made well; he picked up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was the Sabbath,
