Article June 11, 1938 Issue

"Sir, I have no man"

[Original article in German]

ELFRIEDE HOFFMANN

In John's Gospel we read of a man who had been sick for thirty-eight years, and who was lying by the pool of Bethesda, hoping that he might enter into the pool when the water was troubled, that he might be healed. When Jesus asked him if he wanted to be made whole he answered, "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."

What distressing disappointment, merging almost into resignation, breathes in these words! Fettered by the false belief that he needed another to help him to the pool, this man had waited and hoped in vain. But when Jesus came to him, he was healed instantaneously by Christ, Truth. In one of her poems our revered Leader says (Poems, p. 75):

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