<TITLE>18. Par 76-78</TITLE>L-76 Listen. He goes down into this pool where the Bible said, in Saint John the 5th chapter now. Think. Saint John 5. See?
He said... Went down into this pool where great multitudes of impotent folk lay. Watch what kind of condition they were in: lame, halt, blind, withered. Many Bible scholars know that the theolog--or the historians reading in Hislop's "Two Babylons" or not, or Josephus, or some of the early historians said, "It was a massive sight to see how people there... 'Cause the Lord sent an Angel down and troubled the water."
Now, do you think the orthodox church accepted that in their orthodox teaching? Certainly not, absolutely, thought it was a bunch of fanatics. But God said it was an Angel. The Bible said it was an Angel, which is God's Word. I believe it was an Angel, or the Bible would never declared it.
They said it's just the wind, it's a little something wrong with their head, you know, and that wind blows up there. You know what troubled water is. It's current going one way and--and the water riffles coming the other. It's a dangerous water. Ever who's stepping in first, with faith, got healed.

L-77 And Jesus, just after the woman had touched His garment, what? Garments full of virtue, walking among those people, lame, halt, blind, withered, full of compassion, but you misunderstand what compassion means. Compassion... We call... You say, "Oh, Brother Branham. Oh, this..." That's sympathy.
Like two different words, in the Greek word of love: Phileo and Agapao love, I want to know that... See, "Phileo" means "fellowship." It's the love that you have for your wife and for your husband. That would make you kill a man for your wife, you'd love her so. If he insulted your wife, you'd take a gun and kill him. That's "Phileo" love. But "Agapao" love is so much different. It would make you pray for his sinful soul. That's the difference. See?
That's the difference between sympathy and compassion. See? That's right. So He walks through with the virtues in His garments. He never stopped at the lame, the halt, the blind, nor the withered. The masses, He perhaps had to step over one, move around the other one, but He was looking all the time. And He came to a man laying on a pallet.

L-78 I don't know, you Yankees know what a pallet is or not. I was raised on one. It's a little something, a little lay on, a little, oh, blankets like doubled up.
And the man, let's say he had tubercular, or he might've had prostate trouble. He had it thirty-eight years. It was retarded; it wasn't going to kill him. And Jesus passing all those multitudes of people, of lame, blind, halt, and withered, screaming and crying to get into that water, wanting to be healed, full of love and compassion, and walks over to this man laying on a pallet, and said, "Would you be made whole, sir?" Look like He was picking for the easy cases.
And now, notice, He said, "I have no one to put me in the water. He could walk. He said, "While I'm coming down, someone outruns me. Someone gets in ahead of me, while I'm coming. I have no young men here who could grab me and knock the crowd down and take off." He said... Now, He said...


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