In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
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Interpretation
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.