<TITLE>14. Par 50-52</TITLE>L-50 Now, let's turn another page, Saint John 5. Now, there was a pool at Jerusalem, at Bethany, the gate, called Bethesda. And in this pool, around this pool, laid great multitudes of impotent folk. Look what they were: lame, blind, halt, withered. Is that Scripture? Lame, ha--line--both halt and withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an Angel to come down at a certain season and troubled the waters. Whoever stepping in first was healed of whatever disease he had, if he had faith. God has never left the people without a remedy for healing, never, never.
You remember the dividing of the turtledoves the other night? They didn't divide them, or the young pigeon, which was the same specie as the turtledove. But He cut the heifer, and the ram, and so forth, but He never touched the turtledove.

L-51 God's always had a provided way of escape for those who want to escape. And this Angel came down and troubled the water. You think people believed that? Why, no. The big high-ups said, "That's a bunch of fanaticism; that's just the wind blowing." What is a troubled water? You people ought to know, these, all these lakes here. It's a wind blowing one way, a current coming, and the wind blowing it back this way troubles it. It's a dangerous water. But the Lord sent an Angel down and did that.
Now, here comes Jesus, garments full of virtue, walking right down through all those people. And many of you people who read history, it said by some to the writers, that when that Angel would trouble that water, then the first one stepping in, what happened? Listen close now. All the virtue of the Angel went off the water, the first one got healed. Think of it, they waited month after month, waiting for it to return.
But the first one getting in the water with faith, got healed. And the rest... The Angel's virtue left the water. That's the reason Jesus said, "I got weak." People don't understand. No need of trying to understand it; you can't; you got to believe it. Wish we had time to go into it; we haven't. But that's the [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... will come again.

L-52 And here come the Son of God. How many believe He was full of compassion? Sure. Now watch, I'm going to hang you on a nail just for a minute, with the Gospel. If He was full of compassion, as you call compassion, why, that poor old daddy standing there all crippled up with arthritis, saying, "Somebody have mercy on me, to help me in the pool."
That old mother standing there at the water-head baby, "Somebody have mercy on me."
Old blind mother with a bunch of kiddies at home, "Somebody help me to get in next." And He passed right by them, full of compassion, and never said a word to them. Still believe He's full of compassion? You don't know what compassion is. See? See, like I said the other night about love. Human compassion is nothing with God's compassion. We get it all mixed up. We're so sense bound, till we can't understand spiritual things. You've got to get into the line of Spirit to understand spiritual things.
Jesus was more compassionate than any person that ever was on earth. The whole fountain of compassion was in Him, and He passed by the lame, halt, blind, and withered. The Bible said He did it. Is that Scripture? Saint John 5, read it for yourself.


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