John 5:7
The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
John 5:7 in other translations
| BSB | “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am on my way, someone else goes in before me.” |
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| WEB | 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.” |
| ASV | The sick man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. |
| YLT | The ailing man answered him, ‘Sir, I have no man, that, when the water may be troubled, he may put me into the pool, and while I am coming, another doth go down before me.' |
| DARBY | The infirm man answered him, Sir, I have not a man, in order, when the water has been troubled, to cast me into the pool; but while I am coming another descends before me. |
| BBE | 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. |
| Webster | The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is agitated, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. |
What does John 5:7 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on John 5:5-9
5-9. thirty and eight years--but not all that time at the pool. This was probably the most pitiable of all the cases, and therefore selected.
Barnes' Notes
(f) "I have no man" De 32:36, Ps 72:12, 142:4, Rom 5:6, 2Cor 1:9,10
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on John 5:1-9
We are all by nature impotent folk in spiritual things, blind, halt, and withered; but full provision is made for our cure, if we attend to it. An angel went down, and troubled the water; and what disease soever it was, this water cured it, but only he that first stepped in had benefit. This teaches us to be careful, that we let not a season slip which may never return. The man had lost the use of his limbs…
John 5:7 in the original Greek
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Cross references for John 5:7
- Psalms 72:12
For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
- Deuteronomy 32:36
For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
- 1 Corinthians 9:24
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
- Psalms 142:4
I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
- 2 Corinthians 1:8-10
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
- Romans 5:6
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
- John 5:3
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
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Context
- John 5:6
When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
- John 5:7
The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
- John 5:8
Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
John 5:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Señor, le respondió el enfermo, no tengo hombre que me meta en el estanque cuando el agua fuere revuelta; porque entre tanto que yo vengo, otro antes de mí ha descendido. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Le malade lui répondit: Seigneur, je n’ai personne qui, lorsque l’eau a été agitée, me jette dans le réservoir; et, pendant que moi je viens, un autre descend avant moi. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Der Kranke antwortete ihm: Herr, ich habe keinen Menschen, daß er mich, wenn das Wasser bewegt worden ist, in den Teich werfe; indem ich aber komme, steigt ein anderer vor mir hinab. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Respondit ei languidus: Domine, hominem non habeo, ut, cum turbata fuerit aqua, mittat me in piscinam: dum venio enim ego, alius ante me descendit. |