<TITLE>07. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 Now, let's read some Scripture right here about Him. And let's look back here in the Bible and see what type of a Man He was, and then if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, we'll look for that same type of Person (Is that right?), Personality, the Spirit. Now watch.
Now, here He is in Saint John 5 going up to the feast, of course:
After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to the Jerusalem.
Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda having five porches.
In this lay great multitudes of impotent folk,... (Listen)... of blind, halt, withered... (What a mass of humanity.)... waiting the moving of the water.
For an angel came down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the pool stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
... a certain man was there, which had an infirmity for thirty and eight years.
And Jesus saw him lie, and knew, that he had been now a long time in this case, and he said unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
The impotent man answered and said unto him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another comes down and steps in before me.
Jesus said unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
And immediately the man made... was made whole, took up his bed, and walked: and the same was the sabbath days:
And the Jews therefore said unto him that was carrying his bed, It is the sabbath day: it's not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
Now just, watch the point just a moment now. Hold that part.

L-24 Now, do you believe He was the Son of God, all of you? All right. Here He is, Emmanuel, God with us. And here He goes down to the sheep market now, which had five porches. If we had time to go into that lesson, the five porches, J-e-s-u-s, and the pool, the water, the light, so forth where the sheep market was... But when Jesus passed through there, there was a great multitudes. If I'm taught right, it takes two thousand to make a multitude and this was multitudes.
Let's say for instance, between five and ten thousand people, great multitudes of impotent folks... That's helpless, lame, halt, blind, withered. Wasn't that an awful mass of humanity? Look what kind there were in: Lame, halt, blind and withered, waiting for the troubling of the waters. For an Angel came down at a certain season and troubled the water. Whosoever then, stepping in first, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.

L-25 Now look, there laid a man out there on a pallet or a little cot, that had an infirmity for thirty and eight years. Now, here comes Jesus, coming down by this market. And as He passed through by the market, by the market, He goes down amongst these sick, crippled people. Do you believe He was kind-hearted? Do you believe He was loving? Do you believe He had compassion on the people? Then why didn't He heal all those sick people there?
But instead of that, He went by the blind man. He passed by the withered man. He passed by the crippled man. He passed by the spastic child. He went over to a man that had an infirmity. Let's say sugar diabetes, something an another, didn't... He'd had it thirty-eight years. And He walked over to that man, and knew now, that he'd been a long time that way. And He said, "Will thou be made whole?"
He said, "Sir," now he wasn't--he wasn't crippled, he said, "while I'm coming down to the water somebody can step in before me, and they get healed."
Just only one at a time, and then the Angel, they waited again for another season, maybe, a month or whatever it was, for a certain season; He come down again. And he said, "While, I'm coming, someone else steps down ahead of me."


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