Only believe.

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John_5:1
Honouring his Father’s law, and at the same time availing himself of the concourse of people to spread the gospel.
John_5:2-3
Jesus was sure to go where he was most needed, seeking those who could not come to him.
John_5:4-6
A question probably needed to excite his hope, which had grown languid through long waiting and frequent disappointments. The question may well be put to those who have for years been seeking salvation in the use of the outward means of grace without success.
John_5:7
As if to prove his anxiety to be healed, the man mentioned his friendless condition in a very pitiful and humble manner. Sinners should imitate this man, and lay their helpless cases before the Good Physician.
John_5:8
Leave off watching and waiting, believe my word, and rise. This is the way in which the gospel ends all our natural endeavours and tarryings by an immediate and saving command. “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and wait no longer at the pool,” is the one precept of the gospel.
John_5:9
Faith in the almighty word of Jesus brings immediate healing to our souls. Why, then, do so many linger year after year, waiting for they know not what? Angels will not now come from heaven, nor could they save us if they did; but there is life eternal in the message of mercy, and if we will obey it, salvation is ours at once.
John_5:11
He could not quote better authority for what he had done than the word of one who was proved to be divine by the cure which he had wrought. Observe that where Jesus works a gracious cure he also bestows an obedient mind, so that his commands become law to us henceforth.
John_5:12-13
Salvation may come to those who have but scanty knowledge. If we believe in the person and word of Jesus we shall be taught more of both by-and-by.
John_5:14
Those who are healed need to be instructed, lest they err again. It becomes all who have received any measure of grace to watch against the returns of sin, which may bring them into yet deeper trouble. Happy for us is it that our Lord does not leave us after he has restored us, but visits us with his divine teachings by the Holy Spirit.

Lame at the pool I long have been,
Waiting to find relief;
Lord, I have none to put me in
And wash away my grief.

Speak thou, and give my soul to hear;
Thy word can make me whole.
Lord, I believe, and leap for joy,
For thou hast saved my soul.