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The pool of Bethesda was a place in Jerusalem where people who were sick or handicapped sat waiting for an angel to stir the water so they could get in and be healed. The day Jesus went to the pool, the Bible says there was a multitude of people in need. Jesus approached one man who had been there for 38 years and asked him if he wanted healing.
The man exclaimed, "Sir I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up..." (Jn 5:7).
Jesus said to him, "Get up, pick up your pallet and walk."

Of all the people Jesus could have healed that day, He chose the person who said, "I have no one." This is the call of LifeVine... to serve the needs of those who lack the support of family in their advanced years.

Read the story from John 5:1-15 (NIV):

Jesus Heals at the Pool of Bethesda

¹Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews.
²Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
³Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.
⁴ And they waited for the moving of the waters. From time to time an angel of the Lord would come down and stir up the waters. The first one into the pool after each such disturbance would be cured of whatever disease they had.

⁵One who was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
⁶When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

⁷"Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me."

⁸Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk."
⁹At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,
¹⁰and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat."

¹¹But he replied, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.' "

¹²So they asked him, "Who is this man who told you to pick it up and walk?"

¹³The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

¹⁴Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you."
¹⁵The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

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